8 May
2010
8 May
'10
4:17 p.m.
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes (quoting Datamation):
The Sentry 7020 is primarily offered to schools for
the purpose of
reducing large volumes of data that can be expressed on optical mark
reading input sheets.
Searching on Google Books for VALTREP turns up a few plausible-sounding
1970s references to it as a programming language for that sort of
application:
"An error checking and testing system for the VALTREP optical scanning
software package"
"Service options I and II assume that the evaluation team has an expert
who can write the special programs (VALTREP) which tell the electronic
data what to do. If the service request is a routine one, the expert
writes or modifies a general program."
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>