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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1988

THE COMPUTER AND TERMINALS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED $30 MILLION.

AT

A COST OF

STAFF

STEP

ECACCS SAID: TOWARDS

MR

OFFICER HEADING THE STUART RANKIN, SENIOR TEAM IN MANAGEMENT SERVICES WING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BRANCH, "THIS IS A MILESTONE FOR US AND FOR THE FORCE, A POSITIVE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM."

THE NEW

INFORMATION BEING STORED IN EVENTUALLY TO COMPUTERS TO BE INSTALLED IN THE CONTROL CENTRE COMPUTER SYSTEMS.

SYSTEM

WILL

BE REGIONAL COMMAND

LOADED AND

VARIOUS FACILITIES OF WORK IS NOW IN PROGRESS IN TESTING THE THE COMPUTER, AND THE DEVELOPMENT DESIGN OF DOCUMENTATION.

"WE ARE USING THE SYSTEM TO DEVELOP THE PROGRAMMING OF ECACCS, WITH THE MR RANKIN SAID. "PROGRAMMES WILL BE WRITTEN IN ACCORDANCE

OUT IN THE BASELINE DETAILED TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SYSTEM SET DOCUMENT."

"THE

GIVE A

то ATTACHED

INFORMATION BASELINE DOCUMENT FORMS SYSTEM. IT'S A BASIC TIGHT SPECIFICATION OF

"

PROJECT MANAGER MR DENNIS PANG, TECHNOLOGY BRANCH FROM THE GDPA, SAID: THE BASIS FOR THE DESIGN OF THE ENTIRE ECACCS REFERENCE LIKE A BLUEPRINT. IT WILL WHAT THE SOFTWARE WILL EVENTUALLY OFFER.

THE NEW EQUIPMENT COMPRISES FOUR CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS

MEGABYTES, OF 1,660 A TOTAL OF 32 MEGABYTES, EIGHT DISC DRIVES TAPE DRIVE, TWO 600 LINE PRINTERS, THREE TERMINAL PRINTERS PLUS VISUAL DISPLAY UNITS AND ONE PERSONAL COMPUTER TERMINAL.

WITH

ONE

EIGHT

DRIVES IS A "MIRROR AN IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THE DISC FACILITY WHICH IS 100 PER CENT FAULT TOLERANT.

IMAGE"

THAT THIS MEANS

FAILURE 15 IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE ANY RINGLE COMPONENT WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY TAKEN OVER BY OTHERS.

AS THE FORCE RUNS A 24 HOURS A DAY, 365 DAYS A

NO DOWN WITH ABSOLUTELY

TIME, NON-STOPABILITY FEATURE OF THE EQUIPMENT.

IS

YEAR OPERATION AN ATTRACTIVE

ECACCS IS SCHEDULED

IS

TO BECOME OPERATIONAL IN A

AND IT PLANNED PHASES

HOPED THAT ALMOST 600 TERMINALS EVENTUALLY BE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE FORCE.

SERIES OF

WILL

THE LARGEST COMPUTER SYSTEM IN IT WILL BE GOVERNMENT AND COMPARABLE ONLY WITH THE IMMIGRATION IDENTITY CARD SYSTEM.

THE

HONG

KONG

DEPARTMENT

O

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