Administration Manual - B.E.S.T. Undertaking.

CHAPTER – 2
HISTORY
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2.1 Computerisation in the B.E.S.& T. Undertaking began with the first
application of Stores Material Inventory in the year 1968. Undertaking started
this activity by hiring 11 hours of Computer-time daily on IBM-1401
Computer. Computerisation of Electricity Billing and Pay-roll followed.
Electricity Billing was computerised in the year 1971 and Pay-roll in 1973.
A stage was reached when IN-HOUSE COMPUTER was justified by the
usage. In the year 1981, the Fourth Generation Computer MV/8000 was
installed. The change-over to MV/8000 entailed rewriting about 100
programs, which had been written in IBM-1401 Autocoder, in a new language,
namely DG-COBOL. In doing this, not simply the programms were translated,
but the Systems were redesigned in house, so as to exploit the power of the
DG System. The huge conversion work was completed well in time and EDP
Department was in a position to discontinue hire of Computer time from any
outside agency on the day the In-House Computer became operational. This
was a good achievement of which EDP Department ought to be justly proud
of.
The following were the major applications implemented on the Data General
Computer Systems :
i) Electricity Consumer billing;
ii) Installation of load data and meter records;
iii) Pay-roll – pay-slips, Ex-gratia, arrears, provident find, Income Tax,
LTA and Leave Encashment, ESI etc.
iv) Stores Material Inventory
v) Traffic Ticket Accounting
vi) Daily Vehicular Returns
vii) Tyre Statistics
2.2 In the year 1989 a back-up system PCS-7000-XP was installed. The increased
load on DG MV/8000 system was shifted on this back-up system. Since
November, 1993, the DG MV/8000 system stopped working and the entire
load was shifted on PCS-7800-XP System. The DG MV-8000 System was
replaced by the Supermini Computer System Wipro’s Synergy Pentium in
April, 1994.