Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The new computer, an IBM 360/65, is a third generation machine which will replace the current second generation machine. David S. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computing Center, said that "the growth of interest in computing has led to projects which just can't be done on the old...
The new computer has capacity for four remote stations, each of which can be equipped with a card reader, a card punch, and a card printer. Three of the remote stations are tentatively being planned at the Business School, the Medical School, and 8 Mount Auburn Street.
There will also be capacity for 16 teletypes linked to the computer. These teletypes will be able to print output at ten characters per second. Plans for locating these teletypes are still being made. Dix emphasized that the most important feature of the new computer is the "whole spectrum of...
The current cost for computer time is $165 per hour. Dix expects that the cost will be doubled or tripled. But the increased speed of processing should mean no added cost for the computer user.
SELECT was developed by two undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bernard Klein and Ray Kurzweil. Klein had gained business experience in summer jobs at Sonar Radio Corp. Kurzweil had been working with computers since his junior high school days (at 14, he built and programmed a computer that wrote...