A Systems Analysis of Water Quality Survey Design. Appendix VII. Documentation Data Handling System User's Manual.
Abstract
A Data Handling System is described which handles on-site water quality survey data measured by the Army. Data and commands are entered into the system on-line via either the Teletype, Hewlett-Packard optical mark reader, Talos graphic digitizer, DEC manual data entry station, Yellow Springs S-C-T meter, or Fisher pH/ion meter. The digitizer, manual data entry station, specific conductivity instrumentation, and pH instrumentation are interfaced to the system via the DEC PDP-70 programmable data mover. The Data Handling System may be at a fixed location with a telephone data link and/or may be found on-site. The Data Handling System may be viewed as a collection of programs which operate within the supervision of the OS/8 executive on a DEC PDP-8/E. Each of these programs operate in conjunction with data files found on the mass storage devices. An important feature of the OS/8 software permits the user of the system to develop programs written in BASIC which can utilize the same data base generated by the data handling software. The OS/8 is a software system which is supported by a large variety of hardware configurations with a DEC PDP-8/E CPU. This system is a comprehensive library of system programs operating under the supervision of an integrated executive. A brief description of the OS/8 executive is found in the OS/8 System Section.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA036529
Entities
People
- Thomas L. Drake
Organizations
- Clemson University