The IBM 1030 Data Collection System was a remote terminal system created by
IBM in
Endicott, New York
Endicott is a village in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 13,392 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Binghamton Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village is named after Henry B. Endicott, a founding member of the En ...
in 1963, intended to transmit data from remote locations to a central computer system.
Description
The system consisted of the following components:
[IBM Sales Manual, May 79]
* 1031 Input Station. The 1031 systems could contain a
card reader
A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium. The first were punched card readers, which read the paper or cardboard punched cards that were used during the first several decades of the computer industry ...
, badge reader, or manual input device. The 1031A contained the communications logic required to transmit data to a remote computer system ("central output unit" in IBM terminology). The 1031B communicated through an attached 1031A.
* 1032 Digital Time Unit. This device was located at central site and provided timestamps to incoming data.
* 1033 Printer. This was a remote printer attached to the 1031A.
* 1034 Card Punch. The 1034 was located at the central site and functioned as an output device for the 1030 when the computer system was offline.
* 1035 Badge Reader
The 1030 had limited editing capabilities, which consisted of checking that all required data was entered before transmitting a transaction.
The 1030 originally attached to an
IBM 1440 The IBM 1440 computer was announced by IBM October 11, 1962. This member of the IBM 1400 series was described many years later as "essentially a lower-cost version of the 1401," and programs for the 1440 could easily be adapted to run on the IBM 14 ...
computer through a 1448 Transmission Control Unit. Later it could be attached to an
IBM System/360
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applica ...
.
References
IBM computer terminals
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