Brief Survey of TSC Computing Facilities

PDFTech ReportDOT-TSC-OST-72-15ComputersMinicomputersInventoryFacilitiesSoftwareMassachusettsUnited States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of the SecretaryZellweger, AndresJohn A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, (U.S.)NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIESVolpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference CenterThe Transportation Systems Center (TSC) has four, essentially separate, in-house computing facilities. We shall call them Honeywell Facility, the Hybrid Facility, the Multimode Simulation Facility, and the Central Facility. In addition to these four, several laboratories have their own minicomputers. This report reviews the hardware and software capabilities of these facilities. A final section discusses the strength and weaknesses of the current in-house general purpose computer capability