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His leadership earned him national recognition in test scoring machinery and random access disk files and a determining role in the building of IBM West Coast Research and Development. Rey was born near Dassel, Minnesota, on July 7, 1906, ninth of ten children, with seven sisters and two brothers.
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While carrying this idea to application in a potential product, with the investment of much time and effort, he suddenly remembered that pencil marks are conductive and discarded the first path in favor of a better approach using pencil marks to identify the correct answer on the test sheet. This experience of a better idea making obsolete a good idea underlies his subsequent insistence that all possible solutions to a problem must be examined to find the best solution.
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With Rey's background in data input, then mainly punched cards, programs were soon directed at means of automating the input function. The massive input data source he addressed was the punched-card tub file from which, for each transaction, cards were pulled identifying customer, inventory, pricing and so forth for subsequent punch card processing.
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Although storage for image files was on film of one sort or another, the drive to automate showed Rey's continued devotion to solving problems involving large data input and information retrieval. As a special effort an image file, dramatically modified and extended, was used to produce a random access trillion-bit file system.
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One of Rey's last projects was a Chinese-language typewriter. His inventions continuecl throughout his career in IBM and after, with the total number running into the nineties anti with the span varying from test scoring to Data Recording to Education Systems.
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