Page Layout ⇒ IBM Technical Handbook - Chapter in black box

[darkcruix]

I am trying to mimic the IBM manuals with a black box and white text towards the outside of a page to have a visual marker when looking from the side of the page.
Example here e.g. on page 20 http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals ... _APR84.pdf

I could create the box and that simulates it, but not as part of a chapter marker on each page:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\newdimen\parboxheight
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\org@iiiparbox}{}
\let\org@iiiparbox\@iiiparbox
\renewcommand*{\@iiiparbox}[2]{%
  \ifx\relax#2%
    \setlength{\parboxheight}{0pt}%
  \else
    \setlength{\parboxheight}{#2}%
  \fi
  \org@iiiparbox{#1}{#2}%
}
\makeatother
\setlength{\fboxsep}{-\fboxrule}
\titleformat{\section}[display]
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{}{0pt}{\colorbox{black}{\fbox{\parbox[][3.7cm][c]{1cm}{\centering\rotatebox{90}{\textcolor{white}{\thesection\quad#1}}}}}}
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{}{0em}{\colorbox{black}{\parbox{1cm}{\textcolor{white}{#1}}}}

\begin{document}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{-\fboxrule}
\section{Hardware}
\lipsum[4]
\section{Another Test Section}
\lipsum[4]
\section{Another Test Section with a long title spanning more than one line}
\lipsum[4]
\section*{An Unnumbered Test Section}
\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

[darkcruix]

To better describe it: I would like to have the Header (which should be exactly like the black box in the picture below with the Section name in it) displayed on every page within the section range:

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