Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consoles are inadequate, says Mosteller, because "it is possible for a man to think up a legitimate problem that would tie up the computer." The SDS 940's on-line operation involves a relatively small amount of total input, even when all 32 possible teletypes are in contact...
...solution outlined by Mosteller's group is two-fold. First, the Houses would buy time on their own consoles nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight for relatively unrestricted undergraduate use. Second, the Faculty would allocate a separate fund, to be administered through the departments, for course work involving greater input and therefore requiring...
...controllers, they themselves have found that alpha numerics poses a few problems of its own. To feed information about a flight into the radarscope and attach that information to the appropriate blip, for example, the controller must turn away from the screen to punch buttons on a computer input box, leaving his flights unattended for several vital seconds. In addition, as the alphanumeric data blocks move with their appropriate blips across the screen, they occasionally merge with data blocks from other flights, making both sets of data illegible. During heavy traffic, when the screen is crowded with blips and data...
FLAP (running down): Extended care facilities . . . oligopoly . . . input . . . phasein . . . interlocking intervention . . . (He creaks, coughs and crawls into a filing cabinet...
...clear enough. Just a year ago, the victory-flushed Viet Cong stood poised for the final thrust that would cut South Viet Nam in two and assure a Communist takeover. Month by month, the insurgents' momentum has since been slowed, stemmed and finally reversed by the massive input of U.S. arms and men. Today, with 275,000 Americans fighting in Viet Nam and 400,000 expected by year's end, the Communists are finding that the war of liberation plotted by North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap is disastrously out of date (see THE WORLD...