| Summary: | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === This study contains an application of cost-performance
analysis to the automation of a manual reporting and
record-keeping system. A small local transit company serves
as the basis for the analysis. Beginning with a brief
history of small business computing and computers in the
transit industry, it covers this main aspects of requirements
analysis in terms of system size , software and hardwire.
Four alternative computer systems, two minicomputers and two
microcomputer networks, are presented and rated on their
responsiveness to the transit company's needs. Tradeoffs in
cost and performance are analyzed to determine the marginal
costs for each unit of increase in performance. The cost performance
techniques developed for mainframe systems are
shown to be applicable to minicomputer and microcomputer
based systems as well.
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