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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 18 September 14, 1973 HILL TOP TIMES September 14, 1973 Page IS o h ill f Jib i a f W 3 Hardware for the Air Force Logistics Command's Advanced Logistics System (ALS) began rolling in at Hill AFB last Friday. Forty pieces of computer equipment were trucked to the base from Control Data Corp. of Minneapolis and moved into Building 100, where the ALS Center will be. On hand to inspect the shipment was Maj. Gen. Bryce Poe II, Ogden AMA commander, and other officials. The equipment is part of a computer systenvvhich will eventually be linked via jpj third-generati- on PREVIEW - Frank Abplanalp, Sam Chelemes, J. Stan Hoffman and Terry Bockhorn review the plans for final site acceptance prior to the installation of ALS equipment. " -- "i i fi 1 0. system is expected to be the fully operational throughout in Command Air Force Logistics communications network with four other Air Materiel Area bases and headquaarters Air Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterso- n AFB, Ohio. In addition to the central The November 1974. Hill com- will puter installation at each base, remote-acces- s devices will be numerous in functional placed areas at each ALS site to give access to necessary information at the working level. Fifty more vans of ALS equipment are expected at Hill AFB by Oct. AFB officials said the ALS improve the command's support of Air Force units inthroughout the world. This cludes materiel management, procurement, distribution and maintenance responsibilities of Air Force weaponry. "Effective logistics support depends on ready access to managerial and technical data that is current and correct," said Brian 1. Formal acceptance tests will begin in November. Taylor, Hill. an ALS project officer at He said that the system also will provide a more accurate count of assets, reduce duplication of data, and reduce data access time. The computers in the command-wid- e system have a capacity to store the information from 3,225 copies of the 1,232 page Salt Lake City telephone directory. Access to the information is measured in nanoseconds, or billionths of a second. Cost accounting figures show that during the first seven years of ALS, the computer systems and related services will cost some $80 million and save more than $100 million over cost. third-generati- on J. - WELCOME Roger Badelli explains a piece of equipment to Maj. Gen. Bryce Poe II, Ogden AMA commander; Brig. Gen. James P. Mullins, Ogden AMA vice commander; and Col. Joe H. Pate, Comptroller. Mr. Baldelli is a CDC representative. 1 f - t v;: rf . ' :;:;.-.':- tfJ V.v.l! II 4 W ' v Ml -- : v. f N If.- - - t - ' : 'J li f H" iff-i- -n 1 tit mm i, iiMI v fcirrr-f- mi nt ' ' nr - - - - I ?;, i L . ' I . . . ' l . ' Nfctai I m PROGRAMMERS Roland Cahoon, Bob Schroeder and Byron Miittemore talk over the systems development and software. .k ' . f ...... y-H- "r - ENGINEERS Al Brown checks sirps as Dave Benson wires the central processing unit. off the --"7:.;. t w 4-- n V ' 4 1 - : W' f ' ' I '.p)uww .""' v.: Vw .! 1 A Mil 4 V - LINK Barbara Covalt tries out thp keyboard printer. i ' i mwmxtm;m 'mm At v?mw3m immWf OPERATORS - Frank Nkkerson and Bob Freemen try out the console chairs while Don McDonald and Al Long look over their shoulders. j - - TERMINAL Louis Bamett points out a control on the data entry terminal Domenick Clark. to John Lasker, Antonirtti and Ned - RAPID OUTPUT Ray Moss snd Max Peterson discuss a line printer. Photos: Goorgo Whotton |