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SEP 3 0 1986 Boa <br />.c <br />I. How do we interface the C.A.D. system to other systems in the County? <br />A. The project director is very firm on the concept that C.A.D. must be <br />a stand alone dedicated system with no other applications that will <br />interfere with its performance. His concept is that the C.A.D. system <br />will produce an interim record that can be passed to any other well <br />Y known computer system for further processing. I agree with his concept, <br />it works very well at his site now. <br />II. How do we address the records management problem? <br />A. They pass a record to a Data General MV8000 computer that uses COBOL <br />as its major language where it is processed by an'application called <br />C.A.R.E. <br />III. What is C.A.R.E. (Computer Assisted Record Entry)? What is its cost? <br />How do we get it? <br />A. This is where I found the most problems with what our people thought <br />they understood and what was the real situation. St. Louis County <br />has C.A.R.E. running on a Data General MV8000. It interfaces with <br />their current version of C.A.D. They propose to produce an updated <br />version of this application only after the new version of C.A.D. is <br />completed and only then if the members of the consortium agree to <br />put up the funds like they are doing with the C.A.D. There are no <br />plans at this time to make C.A.R.E. available in its current form to <br />run with the new version of C.A.D. because it will only run on Data <br />General MV models of computers and to adapt it would be very expensive. <br />IV. How, who and cost of changes to the C.A.D. system after it is. delivered? <br />A. There will be no changes made by the consortium after delivery unless <br />needed to correct operational capabilities of the system and a benefit <br />to all users. If the user wants customizing done, it will be his <br />responsibility. <br />V. How large a system will be required to operate the system in Indian River <br />County? <br />A. 15 CRT's <br />1 tape drive <br />2 disk drives with 277 M/B of storage <br />2 C.P.U.'s with 4 M/B of memory each <br />A rough cost of $125,000.00 to $150,000.00 depending on brand of com- <br />puter and how well we negotiate the price. <br />VI. The amount of staff to operate the C.A.D. system? <br />A. They feel you will need only the communications personnel to operate <br />the system. No professional data processing staff will be required. <br />I disagree with this strongly based on all my years of experience in <br />the field. I feel at least one senior programmer analyst will be needed. <br />VII. When will the package be delivered? <br />A. If all goes according to plan, it will be available Jan. 1, 1988. <br />VIII. What about creating the G.E.O. data base? <br />A. This is a major undertaking that under the best efforts will take <br />two man years to produce. <br />''' <br />98 <br />