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events and formed 5,076 types of
results and start lists, and daily highlights
reports.
It served all the competitions of
the Games of the XXII Olympiad in
Moscow and the Regatta in Tallinn.
The system entered primary information
from the venues and processed
it automatically calculating results
in 13 sports, including archery, athletics,
basketball, fencing, gymnastics,
modern pentathlon, rowing, canoeing,
shooting, swimming, water polo,
wrestling, and yachting. It also compiled
start lists, results lists and final
tables.
The lists were printed out by the
output terminals in press subcentres
and by high-speed printers installed in
the Main Press Centre, OTVRC, TASS,
and at the Olympic Village.
After the lists had been copied,
they were delivered to broadcast commentators,
to press stands, to information
and working rooms, to personal
pigeon holes of journalists, to offices
of agencies, newspapers and broadcasting
companies, to the Main Press
Centre, OTVRC and press subcentres.
The system also compiled reports
on the highlights of each day. The
data on the highlights were entered at
the venues immediately after the event
in question (a record set or champion
named).
A highlights report formed by the
system consisted of one or several
text lines made in the manner of
flashes sent by press agencies. The
main requirement for the data contained
in those reports was the speed
at which they were to be transmitted
to users. In addition, the information
was placed at the disposal of the
inquiry system at once. To ensure
promptitude of the highlight reporting,
the reports were given the status of
unofficial information. In the event any
correcting data emerged (the record
figures corrected or the record cancelled,
placing changed, etc.), they were
entered into the system and the corrected
reports were sent to users.
The following documents were compiled
and distributed daily on the basis
of the highlights reports accumulated
in 203 events:
— a list of record breakers in all
the events, indicating the record set;
— a list of medal winners in all the
events.
These lists were issued in Russian
and in combined English and French
versions as were the results and start
lists. They were produced by the
system at the spots where most of the
users were concentrated and were
accessible via the inquiry system.
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The rapid reports and documents
containing information on the highlights
of the day were compiled automatically
for the first time at the
Games of the XXII Olympiad thus
providing an additional information
service.
During the competitions from July
19 to August 3, the results system
compiled and produced data for 15
issues of daily Starts and Results
bulletin, 54 magnetic tapes and their
printouts for 21 results brochures, one
for each sport, and information for the
SIMTA-80 service to be distributed to
news agencies.
Some 51 inquiry terminals of the
ACS "Information" system installed at
the Olympic venues in Moscow, Tallinn,
and Kiev gave 144,839 replies to
requests for information.
Massive data files were accumulated
about competitors, judges, team
officials, the progress of competitions
and their results, record holders, and
medal winners of the Olympics. The
inquiry system made this information
accessible for users at all times via
terminal stations. A typical dataprocessing
terminal station included a
remote inquiry terminal, an operator
and interpreters. An inquiry was communicated
to the operator through an
interpreter. The operator worked with
a display unit in a conversational
mode. The reply was printed out.
Specific information could be obtained
about any athlete registered by
the system, including past and present
performance, about officials, judges,
horses, about highlights for each day,
world and Olympic records, the Olympic
timetable, about the Olympic venues,
ACS "Olympiad", about Tallinn
and Baltic regattas, the Olympic Torch
Relay, and about medical service at
the Games of the XXII Olympiad.
The inquiry terminal stations were
available to users at all the competition
sites in Moscow and Tallinn, at
the Olympic Village, Main Press
Centre, OTVRC, TTC, Cosmos Hotel,
Rossiya Hotel, Main Computer Centre
of ACS "Olympiad", the USSR Sports
Committee, Moscow City Soviet's Executive
Committee, and the Institute of
Cybernetics of the Academy of
Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
(in Kiev).
ACS "Competitions" had 63 terminals
installed at 9 venues in Moscow
and Tallinn.
The competitions in athletics, gymnastics,
and water polo were served
by computers of the Luzhniki regional
computer centre located at the Grand
Arena of the Lenin Central Stadium.
The CSCA regional computer centre in