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A data processing and storage system includes semi-permanent disk storage for storing transaction data relating to a plurality of parcels. The transaction data includes character information data which is read from the parcels and scale data which is provided by an associated parcel register scale s

A data processing and storage system includes semi-permanent disk storage for storing transaction data relating to a plurality of parcels. The transaction data includes character information data which is read from the parcels and scale data which is provided by an associated parcel register scale system. When the data processing and storage system is interrogated by a remote host computer, the transaction data is read from the disk and transmitted to the remote host computer for further processing.

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A data processing and storage system for processing and storing transaction data relating to a plurality of parcels and for transmitting the transaction data to a remote host computer, comprising: means for providing a character information signal including character data; means for providing a scal

A data processing and storage system for processing and storing transaction data relating to a plurality of parcels and for transmitting the transaction data to a remote host computer, comprising: means for providing a character information signal including character data; means for providing a scale data signal including scale data; a programmable communications interface unit, operatively connected to said means for providing a character information signal, said means for providing a scale data signal, and to the remote host computer, for receiving said character information signal and said scale data signal, and for providing, as an output, said character data and said scale data; a central processing unit, operatively connected to said programmable communications interface unit, for providing an I/O control signal to said programmable communications interface unit, for processing the transaction data comprising said character data and said scale data, for sorting the transaction data, for providing, as an output to be stored, the transaction data, and for generating a read signal; a dynamic memory, operatively connected to said central processing unit, for use as temporary storage by said central processing unit when said central processing unit is sorting the transaction data; and semi-permanent memory means, operatively connected to said central processing unit, for storing the transaction data processed by said central processing unit and for reading out the stored transaction data to said central processing unit in dependence upon said read signal, whereupon said central processing unit provides the transaction data to said programmable communications interface unit for transmission to the remote host computer.