Word: computerize
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Two years ago a plan to buy a computer with funding from the National Science Foundation fell through. But the dramatic drop in the price of computer hardward since then enabled Harvard to purchase the computer, Charles J. Prenner, assistant professor of Computer Science, said yesterday.
Last year, students in Nat Sci 110, "Automatic Computing," and other students in Computer, Math, Applied Math, Economics and Physics courses were allowed to use the computer terminals only between 6 p.m. and midnight. This accounted for long lines each night at computer terminals in the Science Center and at...
Prenner estimated that the new computer has doubled or even tripled the amount of work which can be done at Harvard's computer terminals. He said the extended hours of access to the computer, new cathode-ray tube display terminals, a high-speed line printer and the generally improved quality...
Debra Sheetz '75 who works under Prenner and Louis Law, director of technical services at the Science Center, said yesterday that she has given out 1500 new computer accounts since September. She said that only 2000 accounts were given out last year.
All Harvard students have free access to the new computer and now there is time to accomodate as many as are interested in "logging on." Prenner said the increased computer time available is "a luxury Harvard could never afford before."