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A Rolodex file used in the 1970s. A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store a contact list.Its name, a portmanteau of the words "rolling" and "index", has become somewhat genericized for any personal organizer performing this function, or as a metonym for a total accumulation of business contacts.
Other than style, what exactly is the advantage of a Rolodex compared to a file card box? -- megA 13:41, 10 December 2010 (UTC) I used a Rolodex like those in the images that literally role as you turn the knob extensively in the 1970's and 1980's until my work functions changed.
Arnold Neustadter (25 August 1910 – 17 April 1996) [1] was an American inventor and businessman. He invented the Rolodex desktop rotating card file and other office equipment with Danish engineer Hildaur Neilson, [2] which has been called "a triumph of low technology" [3] and "a lasting symbol of the art of networking".
Handspring, Inc., was an American electronics company founded in 1998 by the founders of Palm, Inc., after they became dissatisfied with the company's direction under the new owner 3Com.
The original Macintosh and Windows versions were similar, until 3Com purchased Claris Organizer (a Mac-only product) from Claris and rebranded it as Palm Desktop 2. The four modules of Claris Organizer had influenced some of the original Palm developers, who were familiar with it from earlier work on the Macintosh.
An index card in a library card catalog.This type of cataloging has mostly been supplanted by computerization. A hand-written American index card A ruled index card. An index card (or record card in British English and system cards in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.