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1. New Products Editor Prof Demetrios A Michalopoulos California State University Fullerton NEW PRODUCTS Four DPS 8 models added to CP 6 large scale computers Honeywell has added four DPS 8 large scale host computers to its Control Program 6 multiuser systems as part of a program to ex pand the growth path for current users of the CP V and CP 6 operating systems Accom modating up to 120 simultaneous users the models added are the DPS 8 62C the DPS 8 44C in single and dual processor con figurations and DPS 8 20C The DPS 8 62C is a 120 user single pro cessor system field upgradable to a DPS 8 70C the company s most powerful com puter The freestanding central system com prises one CPU one system control unit and one I O multiplexer with 35 channel function slots expandable to 54 slots A typical con figuration includes a Datanet 8C front end network processor with 120 communications lines a 1200 lpm and a 1600 lpm printer a 1050 cpm card reader four 200 ips tape drives and four disk drives The DPS 8 44C central system consists of one or two CPUs a system control unit and one I O multiplexer with 19 channel function slots The single processor 40 user DPS 8 44C in a typical configuration includes a Datanet 8C front end network processor with 40 lines a 1200 lpm printer a 500 cpm card reader two 200 ips tape drives and a disk drive The dual processor 80 user configuration of the DPS 82. for Apple Atari TRS 80 PET CP M TI Sor cerer and Sol computers 3 magazines Creative Computing Microsystems and SYNC 5 graphics and music peripherals an LP record board game 8 T shirts and an eclectic assortment of other products for the personal computer user To get your free copy simply drop a card or note to the address below creative Corpatirg Attn Abby 39 East Hanover Avenue Morris Plains NJ 07960 A general purpose minicomputer the PDP 11 24 offers four times the memory expansion of the PDP 11 34A and twice the memory and performance of the PDP 11 04 according to Digital Equipment Corporation Optional features include a floating point instruction set 22 bit extended addressing capabilities for memory expansion to a megabyte and battery backup Digital introduces entry level PDP 11 Priced from 11 000 as a stand alone unit Digital Equipment Corporation s PDP 11 24 minicomputer features megabyte memory capacity midrange PDP 11 capabilities custom MOS LSI technology and Unibus ar chitecture The unit employs a single hex height central processor module with custom MOS LSI technology as well as the extended instruction set and memory addressing previously avail able only on the PDP 11 44 and the PDP 11 70 The central processor is available in 5 and 10 high chassis The smaller one provides a maximum 768K byte memory by using a 22 bit extended addressing option The larger chass
3. or neither If it is an original the return code is set to indicate that no errors were detected If it is an alias the original is recovered If it is neither the ex istence of an uncorrectable error is conveyed to the user program Users can write their own programs to analyze Selfix06 outputs and correlate the Statistics with other information to produce management reports that help to evaluate the effectiveness of data entry operation The package includes a self installing ex ecutable module ready for insertion into the relocatable library DOS or system library OS a user s manual a sample Cobol source program that calls Selfix06 a one year war ranty on repair of program bugs and a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee Reader Service Number 47 COMPUTER Disk operating system added for TI s TM990 family Eyring Research Institute s PDOS Expres multiuser multitask development operating system is designed for Texas Instruments 16 bit TM990 microprocessor module family The system includes an 8K byte PDOS module an advanced Expres Basic language interpreter a character and a screen editor an assembler a floating point package and user utility enrichments for program development PDOS supports large or small floppy disks bubble memories hard disks and extended memory capabilities of up to 256K bytes It supports up to 16 concurrent user tasks with prioritized round robin clock swapping Up t
4. processors allow users of Four Phase distrib uted processing systems to off load their IBM mainframe host computers by transferring batch applications to remote sites Systems 311 and 312 are 32 bit processors compatible with the instruction set and I O channel interface of the IBM 370 Coupled with the company s interactive front end Systems IV 60 IV 65 IV 80 IV 90 or IV 95 a System 311 or 312 creates a more powerful system capable of providing data en try data base inquiry word processing and local data processing According to Four Phase Systems System 311 is comparable in power to the IBM 4331 Group 1 System 312 which includes a 32K byte cache memory offers twice the per formance of the 311 and is comparable to the IBM 4331 Group 2 Disk capacities range from 100M bytes to 1600M bytes Tape drives of 37 5 or 75 ips are supported The company s interactive front end sys tems and the Systems 311 or 312 can be tightly coupled via a high speed bidirectional channel interface over which batch jobs are trans ferred A low speed communications channel connection is available for loosely coupled ap plications Both systems utilize a classic bus architec June 1981 ture capable of 16M bps transfer rates The microprogram controlled CPU can execute nonmemory dependent microsteps concur rent with I O transfers It uses a control store to implement the 177 instructions of the IBM 370 instruction set A dynamic add
5. 44C typically comprises a Datanet 8C front end network processor with 80 lines a 1600 Ipm printer a 500 cpm card reader three 200 ips tape drives and two disk units The DPS 8 20C is a 20 user system field upgradable to a DPS 8 44C Designed for use either as an entry level freestanding CP 6 sys tem or as a remote CP 6 satellite in conjunc tion with larger host systems the DPS 8 20C in typical configuration includes a Datanet 8C front end network processor with 20 lines a 1200 Ipm printer a 500 cpm card reader a 200 ips tape drive and two disk units The central systems for all of the host com puters include user storage an integrated communications processor based on Datanet 8 hardware remote diagnostic processor cache memory and operator console In typical configurations the host com puters are priced at 1 681 287 for the DPS 8 62C 615 744 for the single processor DPS 8 44C 1 003 038 for the dual processor DPS 8 44C and 496 723 for the DPS 8 20C Reader Service Number 41 48 bit supermini features error correcting main memory A 48 bit superminicomputer system the Harris 300 is fully compatible with other systems in the present Harris line and utilizes the company s Vulcan operating system Utilizing a powerful 48 bit word architecture and compact magnetic peripherals the system provides up to two million bytes of real mem ory and over 12 million bytes of virtual memory Features include error corr
6. OM providing the machine with a fully programmed MICR OCR code line with one to eight fields Based on the PROM program fields are en coded in a controlled index sequence Documents are transported through the en coder at 75 ips The S590 audit tape lister prints at 2 5 lps The system has a rated speed of up to 70 documents per minute for en coding a 12 character amount field The basic 590 with MICR capability sells for 7790 and leases for 261 a month on a three year contract Reader Service Number 44 93 Vector General s VG 8250 third generation graphics display system emulates IBM 3250 graphics display equipment and supports CADAM a CAD CAM programming system developed by Lockheed Aircraft Company Twelve remote display station sites can be located up to three miles from the host computer The VG 8250 channel speed of 1 2M bps and operation of the selector block multiplexer or byte multiplexer in real mode produces a system that can effectively support 32 terminals The communication line of three megabits per second allows eight terminals at a site to be supported without degradation in display station response at large clustered sites Other enhancements include a hand held tablet digitizer a maintenance data management supervisor continuous rotation and scaling of characters and an electrostatic plotter option Reader Service Number 45 512K byte memory card is Multibus compatible The Mega 4 memory card introduc
7. ecting main memory integral 80M byte Winchester type disk streaming tape drive and use of up to 48 interactive terminals A scientific arithmetic unit which supports floating point operations independent of the central processor is op tional June 1981 Languages offered with the system include Fortran 77 Extended Basic Cobol APL RPG II Harris Macro Assembler and Pas cal Communications support packages which allow the H300 to emulate most commonly available protocols as both a host and a ter minal are also available With 192K byte error correcting MOS memory expandable to 1920K bytes a system console CRT an 80M byte disk and a nine track 1600 bpi tape drive with controller the Harris 300 is priced at 104 950 Delivery is 90 days after receipt of order Reader Service Number 42 3M s automated Scotchflex DIP plug connec tor and assembly machine permits termination of 14 or 16 pin DIP connectors to flat cable with jumpers or daisy chain configurations at rates exceeding 600 terminations per hour The unit operates with standard 120V power sup ply The terminator costs 945 50 Reader Service Number 43 System provides MICR and OCR document encoding Burroughs Corporation s S590 document encoding system encodes documents in either magnetic ink character recognition or optical character recognition type fonts The 590 with a control system based on advanced microprocessor technology utilizes PR
8. ed by Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd of Canada satisfies the large memory requirements of high performance 8 bit 8085 Z80A and 16 bit 8086 microcomputer systems It con tains up to 512K bytes of fast read write memory a memory management unit dis tributed refresh and full parity generat ing checking circuitry Byte wide 8 bit and word wide 16 bit data transfers are sup ported and an advance acknowledge signal is provided as a jumper option Worst case ac cess time is 625 ns with a cycle time of 725 ns The memory management unit or MMU consists of two identical banks of 128 address translation registers that are loaded by the sys tem CPUs to specify the mapping of the 64 physical memory segments 8K bytes per seg ment on board the Mega 4 into the 128 logical memory segments in the 1M byte Multibus address space Six bits in each MMU register specify the mapping of a given seg ment and two bits specify the memory seg ment atrribute i e read only write only read write or read write disable The MMU gives 8086 based systems the same segmented 94 addressing as found in Z8000 systems The MMU feature facilitates multipro gramming since a supervisor program has simply to load the MMU registers with the ap propriate memory map as each user is run It also permits instantaneous relocation of pro grams and unlimited expansion of system memory When the MMU is disabled by jumper option the Mega 4 reverts to a sta
9. is accepts a full megabyte of memory The PDP 11 24 is also available in three standard packaged systems running under the RT 11 RSX 11 and RSTS E operating sys tems The first has 128K bytes of memory dual RX02 floppy disk drives and a choice of a DECwriter IV hard copy or VT100 video terminal The second has 256K bytes of mem ory dual RLO2 10 4M byte disks and a choice of a VT100 or DECwriter III terminal The third has 256K bytes of memory dual 28M byte RK07 disk drives and a DECwriter III terminal Reader Service Number 51 Graphic output produced with Fortran callable subroutines Rhintek s software plotting package for the Data General LP2 printer contains Fortran callable subroutines for production of graphic output The package features Calcomp compatible subroutine names and argument sequences full source code and a user s manual It is written in ANSI standard Fortran IV and ver sions are available for RDOS Fortran 4 or 5 and AOS Fortran 4 or 5 The main Calcomp standard routines are plot line axis symbol number scale factor 96 and where In addition two high level routines PPLXY and PPLDB produce com plete plots with one call The lowest level routine point allows a single dot to be placed anywhere on the page any shape can be generated by calling this routine in a loop Priced at 950 the package is delivered ona nine track 800 bpi magnetic tape Other media are available at addi
10. lfix06 to generate a corresponding six digit check field that the user program will print on the document along with the data field Later the subroutine is invoked in the data entry process by the program that is validating the entered data The user program com mands Selfix06 to analyze the entered 17 digit data field check field combination If it discovers a correctable error it makes the cor rection restoring the field to its proper value and issues a return code to inform the user program of the action taken It also passes the location of the error to the user program If an uncorrectable error is detected the subroutine sets the return code accordingly but does not attempt any further action To incorporate Selfix06 into an existing data entry system the user must alter existing report programs and data validation pro grams to call the subroutine and to take ap propriate action after it operates The ANS Cobol call statement is used to invoke the subroutine Running in 6K bytes of memory on an IBM 360 370 30XX or 43XX computer under any standard operating system the software chooses check fields to create 169 aliases for each user furnished data field The propri etary algorithm is designed so that a given 17 digit number can be an alias of only one check field data field combination The pro gram in checking entered data determines whether the number is an original i e error free combination an alias
11. n dard memory card whose base address is strap selectable for any 32K byte boundary Parity generating checking is performed on each byte and an interrupt is generated on parity error The Mega 4 is available in 32K 64K 128K 256K and 512K byte configurations priced respectively at 680 1000 1520 3675 and 5775 OEM discounts are avail able and delivery is in two to four weeks They can be populated with either 16K or 64K RAMs All memory devices are socketed and each card undergoes a 168 hour burn in at elevated temperatures Warranty is 180 days Reader Service Number 46 Subroutine detects corrects keystroke errors on the fly Selfix Corporation s Selfix06 Cobol callable subroutine automatically detects and corrects keystroke errors on the fly in data en try applications Currently implemented on IBM mainframes the package is intended for on line or batch validation of numeric data entered from turnaround documents The subroutine automatically corrects all single digit errors and all transpositions of adjacent digits It also detects but does not correct more than 99 9 percent of all errors other than single digit errors and transposi tions according to the company The subroutine is first invoked by the user program that is to print a turnaround docu ment such as a mailing label an invoice or an inventory list The user program supplies an 1 digit data field to be protected and com mands Se
12. o 32 contiguous or noncontiguous files can be simultaneously open in sequential random shared and read only access modes The Expres Basic intepreter uses advanced interpreting techniques to approach execution speeds of common threaded code compilers while maintaining an interactive approach to program development Other features include multiline and recursive functions with local variables variable names of unlimited length Reverse Polish pseudosource token storage context oriented string handling a full set of disk interface primitives hex number conver sions assembly language linkage and color graphic command primitives PDOS Expres is shipped on large or small floppy disks and retails for approximately 1500 Reader Service Number 48 Phoenix Data has introduced a high speed buffer memory for radar digitizing applications The MEM 1112 is housed in a rackmount chassis with power supplies and blowers Features include four UHF and four VHF channels that accept 12 bit data at 20 MHz double buffered memory and a common control logic module that performs timing channel selections read write control output data storage test functions status and interface to a Westinghouse signal processor Output data rate is 10 MHz Power required is 120 VAC at 60 Hz Two batch processors transfer data at 16M bps Four Phase Systems has added two batch processors which are IBM software and media compatible The Systems 311 and 312
13. ress translator facility translates 24 bit logical ad dresses into real memory addresses Thus the CPU can address a logical space of 16M bytes supporting virtual memory operations Minimum memory configurations are 512K bytes for the System 311 and 1M byte for the System 312 Both can be expanded in 1M byte increments up to 4M bytes The memory uses 16K bit dynamic MOS chips with a nominal 200 ns access time System 311 is available as a back end dis tributed batch processor System 312 will be available in the fourth quarter A sample configuration of the System 311 based on a 42 month lease costs under 3000 per month This includes a 311 processor with 1M byte of memory a console 100M bytes of disk a tape drive 16 communication lines and a 300 lpm printer The cost of a sample System 312 based on a 42 month lease is under 4000 per month This includes a 312 processor with 1M byte of memory a console 200M bytes of disk a tape drive eight com munication lines and a 300 lpm printer Reader Service Number 49 Reader Service Number 50 FREE 48 Page Catalog A new free 48 page catalog is free from Creative Computing and Periph erals Plus To help buyers make intelli gent purchasing decisions the product descriptions are exceptionally compre hensive and include screen photos in the software section The catalog describes 20 books on pro gramming games and educational appli cations 160 software packages
14. s voice print Votan Corporation s development system the V1000 is designed for system develop ment and evaluation by organizations in terested in using Votan s proprietary voice technology According to the company the V1000 is trained to a user s voice print by pressing a word button and speaking into a microphone The unit recognizes isolated words or com mands in any language and can be used to enter data activate machines or control re mote processes A stand alone development system the V1000 contains all the processing power logic and memory necessary to perform training and word recognition as well as to in terface with external equipment The portable unit consists of an 11 x 18 front panel with 80 word buttons and 14 control keys Up to 80 double trained words can be entered using the training panel and up to 160 single trained words can be entered with an external display and control processor An optional switching unit is available for direct voice activation of machinery and other industrial loads In addition to its use as a development tool the V1000 can be used in its present form for voice data entry into an on line system The V1000 is priced at 10 000 with delivery 30 days after receipt of order Reader Service Number 54 COMPUTER
15. tional cost Maintenance for 90 days is included in the purchase price Reader Service Number 52 High speed coaxial data modem operates on any frequency pair A high speed coaxial data modem designated the Coax Modem and jointly pro duced by Catel and Prentice Corporation combines separate RF and data component packages in one module Offering switch selectable rates from 2 4K to 28 8K bps the modem can be spaced 200 KHz apart in the 4 to 200 MHz range Up to 30 high speed data channels can be placed in one 4 to 200 MHz range Up to 30 high speed data channels can be placed in one standard 6 MHz TV channel assignment The modem is broadband coax CATV compatible and designed for a standard RS 232C CCITT V 24 data interface It operates on any frequency pair available on an existing CATV CCTY system allowing data trans mission to be integrated into systems already servicing television audio and other signals The unit features digitally generated wave forms and operates in internal external clock or repeater timing modes Its front panel has both RF and data diagnostics Frequency translators are available if turn around of the data signal is required In addi tion RF modulator and demodulator sections are of modular construction and can be changed for field service or frequency changes In single quantities the Coax Modem is priced at 1895 Reader Service Number 53 Development system can be trained to user
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