The Augmented-Catalog Console for Project Intrex, Part I.
Abstract
The report describes the design of a display-console system for the Project Intrex augmented-catalog program and discusses the considerations that lead to this design. The display-console system consists of several user consoles that are connected to a station containing a drum memory and a small digital computer. The station in turn is connected by communications lines to a time-shared computer that also has the data banks for the augmented catalog attached to it. The user console has an alphanumeric, refreshed-CRT display which is maintained by the drum memory in the station, a typewriter keyboard, mechanical function switches with fexed and dynamically programmable labels, and a light pen. The digital computer in the station allows the user to do simple operations on the displayed data and to obtain a certain amount of tutoring on system use without recourse to the time-shared computer, thus relaxing demands of a single user on the time-shared computer and the communications lines serving that computer. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0735503
Entities
People
- Donald R. Haring
- James K. Roberge
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology