The Application of Inexpensive Minicomputers to Information Work.

Abstract

Minicomputers are now extremely powerful and can be equipped with large access stores. These features make them ideally suited to information work and their cost is sufficiently low that an information centre or service can even justify having one solely for its own use. This avoids all the problems inherent in the sharing of a main frame computer, either in an associated organization or at a commercial bureau. This report outlines the ways in which many computers can be used in information work and includes examples of their current use in a number of different areas, such as editing and publishing information bulletins, SDI(Selective Dissemination of Information) and retrospective retrieval and library housekeeping.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA052861

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  • AGARD

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Health Services
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering

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  • Computer science

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