Personal Computers in the Light Infantry: A Survey on Office and Home Computers

Abstract

Computers with certain certain minimum hardware requirements are needed to perform information management functions and computer-based training (CBT). The purpose of this study was to determine the availability and features of computers for use by battle staffs. A survey was designed to obtain this information from Light Intantry brigades. The results from fourteen brigades indicated that variations in computer features existed. Further information was obtained by making the survey available to battalion and brigade units training at the Leaders Training program at the Joint Readiness Training Center. A total of thirty-six units completed the survey. About half of the available computers were Pentiums with most of the remaining being 486s. Many of the computers lacking the necessary features could be inexpensively upgraded. It was concluded that CBT courseware developers should consider the target audience's hardware capabilities for running the software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA340880

Entities

People

  • Gene W. Fober
  • Robert L. Stephens Iii

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Availability
  • Central Processing Units
  • Command And Control
  • Computer-Aided Instruction
  • Computers
  • Digital Information
  • Distance Learning
  • Doctrine
  • Infantry
  • Military Research
  • Personal Computers
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Task Forces
  • Training

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design