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Trautman, Rodes – Online, 1983
Reviews computer storage devices designed to provide additional memory for microcomputers--chips, floppy disks, hard disks, optical disks--and describes how secondary storage is used (file transfer, formatting, ingredients of incompatibility); disk/controller/software triplet; magnetic tape backup; storage volatility; disk emulator; and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Diagrams, Information Storage
Download full textHagerty, Michael P.; And Others – 1972
This description of software development for the 1970 Survey of Compensatory Education analysis contract is presented in three sections: (1) specifications for data and output, (2) descriptions of the programs written, and (3) problems encountered while processing the data. The section on Specifications contains the description of the data to be…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Information Storage
PDF pending restorationYu, John – 1972
The Instructional Management System (IMS) developed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) processes student and teacher-generated data through the use of an optical scanner that produces a magnetic tape (Scan Tape) for input to IMS. A series of computer routines, OPSN, preprocesses the Scan Tape and prepares the data for transmission to the…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Flow Charts, Information Processing
Kraepelien, Hans – 1972
Computer routines for the translation of teacher-prepared mark sense forms to magnetic tape are described. The program, Receiving IMS (RIMS), is part of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS). It accepts mark sense sheets from remotely located Xerox 660 scanner copiers and/or IMS update information from…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Collection, Data Processing, Information Processing
PDF pending restorationYu, John – 1972
The Southwest Regional Laboratory's Instructional Management System (IMS) central data processing system produces reports for dissemination to participating schools which provided the original source data to the system. Described in this document are the computer software routines (SIMS) that control the dissemination of information contained on…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Flow Charts, Information Dissemination
Avram, Henriette D. – 1968
The MARC Pilot Project was an experiment conducted by the Library of Congress, in cooperation with 16 participating libraries, to determine the feasibility of putting cataloging data into machine-readable from for distribution of magnetic tapes. MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) records were distributed for some 16,000 titles in the pilot phase…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. – 1971
Libraries should resist the temptation to relinquish to computing centers the burden of looking after the university's digital data record resources for a growing volume of intellectually important material will arrive at the university on digital data tapes. If the user must arrange for access to this material outside the library, he will be…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Processing
