To elaborate, data that came to us first had to be received at a ground station then stored on magnetic tape. Tapes were then transported to us to later process and use (on old PDP-11's). Some "rush jobs" required tape pickups from the groundstation direct. That's just how it was for our department back then, everything was compartmentalised.
To elaborate, data that came to us first had to be received at a ground station then stored on magnetic tape. Tapes were then transported to us to later process and use (on old PDP-11's). Some "rush jobs" required tape pickups from the groundstation direct. That's just how it was for our department back then, everything was compartmentalised.