Processing of Large Amount of Data by Personal Computer

-- Application to Marine Geophysical Data Processing --

Abstract

A marine geophysical data processing system is constructed by an 8-bit personal computer, 8-inch floppy disk drives, a digital tape transport with universal buffered interface ( 8-bit parallel, RS-232C and GP-IB ), as digital X-Y plotter and others. This system creates marine geophysical data files, which consist of positional, gravity, geomagnetic and depth data, on floppy disks, and produces graphic displays of the data files on the plotter. 30-days cruise data logged by one minute interval can be stored in two sheets of the 8-inch floppy disk.