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| USAREUR Data Processing Center | |||
| 1964 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, Aug 1 1964) | |||
| USAREUR Adjutant General (AG) Division is consolidating (during August) its data processing units. The DP units are as follows (Source: STATION LIST, 30 June 1964):  4th AG DP Unit (Mbl)(Type Z), Patch Bks, Vaihingen (TOE 12-510D58) -- 7th Army Special Troops11th AG DP Unit (Mbl)(Type Z), Patton Bks, Heidelberg (TOE 12-510D58) -- Special Troops, USAREUR 36th AG DP Unit (Mbl)(Type Z), Patch Bks, Vaihingen (TOE 12-510D58) -- 7th Army Special Troops65th AG DP Unit (Mbl)(Type Z), Patton Bks, Heidelberg (TOE 12-510D58) -- Special Troops, USAREUR Among other advantages, the consolidation will facilitate standardization of operating procedures and elimination of duplicate management functions at each DP unit. The mission of the DP units is to operate the Data Processing Branch of the AG Division. The Division is responsible for collecting, auditing, and maintaining personnel, organizational and equipment data from personnel actions, administration sections and units. The Branch furnishes timely information and generates reports, statistics, programs and records requested by the Dept of the Army, HQ USAREUR and local commands. |
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| Communications Zone Data Processing Center | |||
| 1964 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, May 12 1964) | |||
| Unit Data Processing Equipment School The Unit Data Processing Equipment School (UDPES) is operated at Maison Fort, France by Com Z Hq. The school provides qualified operators and supervisors for punch-card operated automatic data processing systems of all US military forces in Europe and the Mediterranean. Graduates of UDPES come from Army, Air Force and Navy units in Europe, with ranks ranging from private to colonel; also US employees from the three services and local nationals hired by the US military in host nations. Until April of this year, the school offered four separate courses:  a three-week course in basic machine operation;a one-week course in the operation of the IBM-604 calculator;a two-week basic course for the IBM-407 accounting machine;a one-week advanced course for the IBM-407.As of April, all four courses have been merged into one general course. |
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| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, Oct 15 1964) | |||
| In 1964, two computer service centers, one at Maison Fort (Orleans) and the other at Verdun, were formed as part of the Com Z's new integrated materiel inventory management system. The objective of the new system was to consolidate the existing seven technical supply control activities (1) and convert them to one centralized operation. (Webmaster Note: the center in Maison Fort, Orleans, handles supply control; the one in Verdun handles stock control. Each of the original supply control activities had their own computer hardware - different makes and models. Between 1964 and 1967 when Com Z was forced to move to Germany, efforts were made to standardize when acquiring newer computers for the two centers.) The new integrated materiel inventory management system will cover all facets of materiel planning, supply management, stock accounting, financial accounting, depot supply operations and depot maintenance. The two computer service centers will not duplicate each other's processing, but each will share the work load using the same data.This information will be updated at each data processing center on a daily basis. More than 300,000 different items are handled daily in the Com Z. Half of these are under Com Z control and stocked in the command's depots. The command forecasts that its customers will requisition about $400 million worth of items in the next year. The total inventory (including major items) on hand in the depots of the Com Z is worth more than $1.7 billion. |
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| (1) (Source: STATION LIST, 31 Dec 1963) US Army Supply & Maintenance Agency, Maison Fort, Orleans, France, APO 58 US Army Chemical Control Activity, Poitiers, France, APO 44US Army Ordnance Control Activity, Maison Fort, Orleans, France, APO 58 US Army Engineer Control Activity, Maison Fort, Orleans, France, APO 58US Army Medical Control Activity, Poitiers, France, APO 44US Army Quartermaster Control Activity, Giessen, Germany, APO 169US Army Transportation Control Activity, Maison Fort, Orleans, France, APO 44US Army Signal Control Activity, Poitiers, France, APO 44 |
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| Materiel Command Data Processing Center | |||
| 1969 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, June 19 1969) | |||
| The data processing center operated by MATCOM is located at Kreuzberg Kaserne in Zweibrücken. Its mission is to keep track of the command's $1.5 billion inventory (over 400,000 items). The person in charge of the DP center is a civil service computer programmer, Mr. Zeno S. Stanguilo. About 325 people work at the center in Kreuzberg Ksn, a mix of military, DAC's and local national civilians. They handle more than 250,000 requisitions a month. About 100 of the staff work directly with the computers. Of these, 38 operators work in two rooms with large key-punch machines. 90 percent of the requisitions are received through a complex transceiver network that connects the various MATCOM sites. The transceivers are card-punch machines that are tied directly to the Zweibrücken center through telephone lines. The other 10 percent are either mailed or hand-carried to the center. Once a requisition is received it is grouped with others and processed into the system. The computers are programmed to determine if items are available, in what quantity and where they are located (in which depot) and then notify the center of the results of the search. The computers can also determine if an item is in short supply. Personnel review the shortage list weekly and make a decision if a reorder is required. Four different criteria are used to make that decision: -- quantity (of that item) on hand--
priority of the need-- quantity already ordered (and expected to arrive at Bremerhaven)-- quanitity already in use
Under Operation FRELOC in 1967, all of the computers of the two data processing centers were loaded onto rail cars and moved to Kreuznach Kaserne in Zweibrücken. Only early this year were the computers moved from the rail cars (located at Hochmühlbach) and installed at the DP Center in Zweibrücken. |
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| Seventh Army Card Processing System (SEACAPS) | |||
| 1964 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, Oct 19, 1968) | |||
| The Seventh Army Card Processing System (SEACAPS) is an automated spare-parts supply management system. It is part of a program initiated in the early 1960s with the goal of converting USAREUR divisions to the Combat Service Support System which puts a multi-functional medium-size computer at the division-level. The brain of the system is the UNIVAC 1005 Card Processor, an improvement over the UNIVAC 1004 (the plug-board program was replaced by an internal stored program). In addition to the 1005, the system is also comprised of a 1004 Card Reader and 1004 Card Punch. The 1005 is fed pre-punched cards that contain information on the spare parts that a division battalion needs. It matches that request with information on parts that are on hand and determines if the request can be filled or if the request needs to be sent to a higher level. Each battalion keeps the pre-punched cards for the supplies that they are authorized to stock. |
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| Berlin Brigade Data Processing | |||
 UNIVAC 9300 (Museum of Computer and Communication Technology) |
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| 1969 | |||
| (Source: STARS & STRIPES, Aug 29, 1969) | |||
| The first UNIVAC 9300 computer to be used by the US Army will soon be installed at Berlin Brigade headquarters. The computer will be operated by the headquarter's data processing branch. The data processing branch is a centralized data processing unit under the ACofS, Comptroller. The unit provides data processing services to the US Army, Berlin and Tempelhof Air Base. Projects to be processed by the UNIVAC 9300: military pay personnel accounting stock accounting & inventory control appropriation accounting blank forms inventory and various other projects
The computer consists of a CPU with 16,000 memory positions, four magnetic tape drives, a card reaerd and card punch, and a printer capable of 600 lines per minute. |
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