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Title: Development And Implementation Of Portable Computers For Field Gaugers
Author: John Gadziel
Source: 1988 International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement
Year Published: 1988
Abstract: Prior to 1980 Amoco Pipeline Companys field run tickets were mailed to the general office where they were entered into the corporate computer system by a pool of keypunch operators. This system was plagued with a number of problems associated with slow mail, keypunch errors and missing or incomplete information on the tickets. In 1981 Amoco Pipeline Company implemented its first Pipeline Input Ticket Teleprocessing System (PITTS) which utilized dumb terminals and an interactive program on General Electric Information Services Company (GEISCO). This system pretty much eliminated the problems associated with the U.S. mail and missing or incomplete ticket data and significantly reduced the keypunch errors. This system, however, was costly since as an interactive system the connect time was high (Field gaugers are not noted for their typing abilities). Some significant data transmission reliability problems were also encountered.

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