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Recommended Citation: Frank, R I.  An Antique Engineering Filing System for Personal Use and as a DBMS Case Study.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2005, v 22 (Columbus OH): §3154. ISSN: 1542-7382.
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An Antique Engineering Filing System for Personal Use and as a DBMS Case Study

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Refereed7 pages
Ronald I. Frank    [a1] [a2]
Information Systems Department
Pace University    [u1] [u2]
Pleasantville, New York, USA    [c1] [c2]

This is document serves four purposes. First: it is a documentation of a 0th generation engineering filing system. Second: it is a call for input from anyone familiar with comparable file systems. Third: it is an introduction to a very useful personal filing system. By documenting an historical file system and interpreting it in terms of modern technology, we derive a filing system that has proved robust and very useful for personal filing systems and for small business use. Fourth: this document describes a very engaging case study use of this simple system employed in a database course as a real database that the students can use.

Keywords: file system, filing system, database case study, ISAM simulation, Pareto Principle, information retrieval

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