 A Rolodex file used in the 1970s. A Rolodex is a rotating file device used to store business contact information (the name is a portmanteau of Rolling and Index) currently manufactured by Newell Rubbermaid. The Rolodex holds specially shaped index cards; the user writes the contact information for one person or company on each card. Many users avoid the effort of writing by taping the contact's business card directly to the Rolodex index card. Some companies have produced business cards in the shape of Rolodex cards, as a marketing idea. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 463 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1074 × 1390 pixel, file size: 512 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I took this picture of a w:Rolodex file used by my father, Max Reinhold, in the 1970s. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 463 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1074 × 1390 pixel, file size: 512 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I took this picture of a w:Rolodex file used by my father, Max Reinhold, in the 1970s. ...
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Newell Rubbermaid is a global manufacturer of home organization products, such as plastic outdoor storage sheds in various sizes (which are made by blow-molded panels), kitchen, hardware, seasonal, cleaning products such as brooms, dustpans, and refuse containers, a wide variety of Rubbermaid reusable plastic containers and their lids, and...
An index card is a piece of heavy paper stock, cut to a standard size and often used for recording individual items of information that can then be easily rearranged and filed. ...
Attorney business card 1895 Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. ...
The Rolodex was invented by Arnold Neustadter in 1958. Neustadter also invented Autodex, a phone directory book that automatically opened to the right letter, Swivodex, an inkwell that did not spill, Punchodex, a paper hole puncher, and Clipodex, a stenographer's aid that attached to the knee.
Rolodexes are still common, despite many computer applications that perform the same function.
The name rolodex has become somewhat genericized for any personal organizer performing this function. A genericized trademark, generic trade mark, generic descriptor, or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which has become the colloquial or generic description for a particular class of product or service. ...
An appointment diary A personal organizer, day planner, or personal planner is a small book/binder usually containing a calendar, address book, and notebook paper. ...
See also An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a collection of data storing contact details (for example: address, telephone number, e-mail address, fax number, mobile phone number). ...
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