Book Description

The advent of ADP-controlled production of technical publications has provided all kinds of benefits in the form of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and accuracy. However, the chief problem encountered in such techniques historically has been the keypunch operation. It requires the use of vendors, with the concomitant problems of cost, transportation, and the conspicuous absence of highly touted accuracies. Also, the increasing usage of Government computer facilities has begun to present problems when a publication with a frequent revision cycle is involved. Taking stock of the foregoing problems, this Section sought some way to solve them. A new data retrieval system has been adopted to provide a fast-response capability by means of an on-line, time- shared computer in which data are accessed by an operator terminal located right in the Section office. The flow of input and output data associated with the field change program has become manageable and adapted to a streamlined operation through use of the new system.