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ACS "OCOG"
To solve the problems of the
OCOG-80 during the preparation and
staging of the Games, the ACS
"OCOG" system was used, based on
three high-speed Soviet-made ASVT
M-4030 computers (one of them
was in reserve) installed at the
Main Computer Centre of ACS
"Olympiad".
ACS "OCOG" monitored the overall
programme of preparations for the
Games of the XXII Olympiad and,
besides, provided for computerised
solution of some problems associated
with activities of the OCOG's staff and
directly with staging the Games, including:
— planning of preparatory undertakings
for the Games and supervision
of their execution;
— bookkeeping for marketing and
licensing of emblems of the Games of
the XXII Olympiad on merchandise
and souvenir items;
— distribution and selling of admission
tickets;
— formation and updating of data
base for accreditation of the newsmen;
— keeping payrolls of the OCOG's
staff.
ACS "OCOG" included five subsystems.
The "Supervision of Operations for
Preparation of the 1980 Olympics on
the Basis of Network Analysers" subsystem
was designed to improve efficiency
of planning and control over
the OCOG departments, ministries,
and government agencies in their activities
aimed at timely implementing
the undertakings associated with the
preparation of the Games.
The "Record-Keeping" subsystem
was designed for automatic bookkeeping
with regard to production of merchandise
bearing the Olympic emblems
and supervision of revenues from
their sales.
The "Ticket Distribution" subsystem
based on allotted quotas and the
initial plan of distribution: kept track
of and monitored the ticket sales; kept
account of revenues from the sales of
tickets; did paperwork for each stage
of sales; determined the balance for
redistribution of tickets.
The "Payroll" subsystem was designed
to calculate automatically
salaries of the OCOG's staff.
The "Accreditation of Newsmen"
subsystem was designed to process
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accreditation cards of the media in
order to organise better the services
for them.
The subsystem processed 5,615
accreditation cards and prepared reports
on expected daily numbers of
members of the media, broken down
into countries, agencies, and sports,
their requests for the press boxes, their
needs in communication services and
so on, including the registration of
arriving journalists in order to organise
their reception, accommodation,
and services essential for their work
during the Games of the XXII Olympiad.
Hardware of ACS "Olympiad"
which included the above automatic
data-processing systems consisted of:
— 14 computers in 6 computer
centres;
— 202 terminals in Moscow, Tallinn,
and Kiev connected to central
processing units by 437 data links;
— 66 magnetic disc stores.
The above hardware provided for
the following performance of ACS
"Olympiad":
— a total of 5.5 million operations
per second for all computing facilities;
— 5,432 Mbytes of on-line storage;
— 2,725 Mbytes of fixed storage;
— 2,5 million instructions of
application software;
— the system response of 7 to 8
seconds;
— lists issued to users within 3 to
15 minutes after an event;
— 24 thousand forms of output
documents.
3,309 persons were engaged in the
operation of the ACS "Olympiad",
including technicians from the Minpribor,
students of Moscow institutes,
members of the OCOG-80, Moscow
City Soviet's Executive Committee, and
other organisations.
The personnel of the operating
services was distributed as follows:
Data collection and monitoring
Data input-output
Copying
Delivery of information
Maintenance and software
attendance
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The ACS "Olympiad" operation services
interacted according to a pattern
tested during the VII USSR Summer
Spartakiade and improved from the
experience.
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Part of the computer room of
ACS "OCOG"