Box 2

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This is a copy of one of the early Computing Facility manuals, Dated September, 1966. It gives an overview of the facility and the operating system as well as containing several reference manuals.

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Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

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The CRAY-1 was delivered in July, 1977

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

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This folder contains the article "The Production of Scientific Films Using a Digital Computer and Optical Output Device" by Tom Wright, J.C.H. Mungall, A.C. Vastano, and R.E. Whitaker. It dates to the early 1970s. Also contained is "A Guide to the Production of Computer Generated Films" by Ken Hansen, dated February 1985. Version 2.0 of this is also here, dated July 1988 and Version 3.0, dated January 1991.

Scope and Contents The NCAR Command Language (NCL) was first released in Version 4 of the package in 1996. NCL is an interpreted language and was designed as a cleaner more uniform interface to the underlying graphics functions. The were initial concerns about the ease of use of the interface and, to address this, Mary Haley wrote an extensive suite of interface functions that were documented in the manual in this folder. These functions, and this interface, have come to be known as GSUN and have become the...

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This describes functions allowing a user to generate and store graphics instructions and insert them a subsequent times without having to regenerate the instructions. The document in this folder is dated March, 1989. GFLASH is a GKS based version of the FLASH package in the early versions of NCAR Graphics.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

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The Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division ran VAX computers for many years and needed a version of NCAR Graphics specific for those machines. Programmers in that division undertook this task and the manual in this folder described how to implement that package.