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Figure 1.— IITKI T & E computational facility. 
files without any tedious and error producing 
data transcriptions. 
The remotely located, second-tier system is 
implemented on a large batch processing system 
(currently this is University Computing's 
UNI VAC 1108 system). The system software 
itself was developed by T & E personnel and is 
called the Facility Information System (FIS). 
It includes a large data base able to hold many 
months of T & E facility data in accessible form 
and a data base management language for ac- 
quiring, processing, manipulating and report- 
ing this data. 
We will concentrate in this paper on describ- 
ing the first-tier system, the system used to aid 
T & E Facility personnel in performing their 
