AUTOMATED DOCUMENTATION
Abstract
Realizing that RAC's only tangible products are technical papers and that the present manual methods of draft and document production are impediments to the swift preparation of a large technical document, the author designed and implemented the computer-assisted system herein described. The system design embodies a number of brand-new ideas--ideas not contained within any other known system, program, or device whose purpose is to compose or typeset documents. These innovations include free-flown keypunching, the concept of the voided area, and the freely commingled English-like editing instructions and text. As a result the keypunching of a draft is actually easier than either typing (onto paper) or traditional keypunching (into cards). Corrections (i.e., changes, insertions, deletions, and rearranging) of a draft are made at the key punch; there is no need to count pages, lines, words, or characters and then to keypunch these counts into special change-instruction cards that must later be processed and interpreted by the computer. The system, considered to be a working prototype, is now undergoing an extensive operational test and development.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0470103
Entities
People
- Robert A. Magnuson