PLOTTER AND COMPUTER CAPABILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A001000060002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 30, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

STATINTL 0060002-0
"June 30, 1964
PLOTTER AND COMPUTER CAPABILITY
STATINTL 1. Both President, and
Secretary-Treasurer are cleared UPI! e e
STATINTL according to STATINTL
2. This company makes the - Plotter which you
have down in the computer room. It is a drum type
plotter 29-1/2 in. wide with a 120 ft. long roll
of paper. It will plot on digital command from the
computer in X-Y steps of .005 in. or .010 in. The
lotting is extremely fast, 200 to 300 plots per
second.
3. The company does about $5 million per year business,
2/3 in plotters, 1/3 in systems. They have about
130 people and a 40,000 sq. ft. plant. In systems,
they mainly solve the interface problems and usually
find themselves in the middle between the sensors
and the computer.
STATINTL 4. Topics discussed with
a. Handling collateral data
b. Computer programmer service
c. Remote plotting through Dataphone
d. Grid point latitude and longitude plots
e. Optical data block reading
5. I returned Circuit Board SSM 92-021-3 to for STATINTL
his evaluation. This is a board out of your
plotter with an intermittent malfunction in it. STATINTL
6. On Collateral Data Handling there was not much dis-
cussion. did not see any obvious application of
their capability in this area.
Declass Review by NIMA / DoD
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7. On Computer Programmer Service they have some applicable
caps i it The have five programmers cleared DOD
Secret, will get some background data on the
men, and you can see if they might be useful. I know
this is a difficult type of service to implement success-
fully, but it is probably worth looking into a little
bit.
8. 1 On Remote Plottin through dataphone transmission,
indicate their plotter speed is cut about in
TEIII
a !y the Dataphone Mgdel 202A lim tions. He was
certain, however, that there were faster Dataphone
types available which would not limit plotting speed
and he will investigate.
Their present plotting speed on the plotters isSTATINTL
mechanically limited. The electrica imit is three
to five times faster than the mechanical limit. They
do not have a slewing mode for rapid line drawing, but
it could be provided which would increase the speed to
about 400 plots per second.
STATINTL developed the Grid Point Equipm h plots
latitude and longitude grid lines on the cloud 25X1A
pictures.
STATINTL
Your plotter, which is about to be delivered,
also has MM Me problem of being drastically slowed down
by the Dataphone 202A for any remote plotting application.
is highly desirable that the plotter be located at
the user s location instead of being physically tied to
the computer location. I think it is desirable to see
STATINTL if has any good ideas for remote plotting
caps i ity.
One easy (but not very satisfactory) solution is to
have the computer generate a magnetic tape command
record at high speed, then carry the tape to the plotter
and have the tape run the plotter at its maximum rate.
9. They seemed to have worked all around the automatic
data block reading problem and will check to STATINTL
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see if they have any direct background. I pointed
that the optical sensing is a major portion of the
problem. Sooner or later you will want to auto-
matically search for and stop on a particular frame
on a roll, and this will require high-speed automatic
data block reading.
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