Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American has dealings linked with a computer at least ten times a day, the average Soviet citizen comes in contact with a computer perhaps once every six months, if then. Though the Soviet State Bank is the world's largest banking operation, it does not possess a modern computerized check-processing and accounting system. Stores do not use computers for charge accounts, since Soviet citizens are not permitted this capitalist excess, and they have not computerized other parts of their operations, like inventory control. Aeroflot, the Soviet national airline, in 1975 bought two Univac 1106 computers, worth about...
Where Soviet computer technology lags most is in speed. Their Ryad-model computers, the most advanced machines in general use in the Soviet Union, are close copies of the IBM 360 series, first introduced in the U.S. in 1964. The top design in the Ryad line, which has not yet...
Aiming to develop their own "number crunchers," as the fast new U.S. machines are called, Moscow is designing a large computer, specified the BESM-10. Supposedly, it will be capable of 15 million operations per second. But although it is supposed to come into use this year, it has not...
One of the leading U .S. authorities on the present state of Soviet computers is Dr. Carl Hammer, director of computer sciences at Sperry Univac. Hammer, who often visits Russian cybernetic installations, believes the U.S.S.R. is nearly equal to the U.S. in the design and construction of computers. But it...
Good Logicians. In terms of human talent-"brainware" in the argot of computer men-Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language...