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Given this predisposition of mine, I was genuinely intrigued when I heard Stephen S.J. Hall talk about Harvard's new Delta 2000 computer system. Hall is a former employee of ITT's Sheraton hotel chain and he currently serves as Derek Bok's vice president for administration. The Delta 2000 is a $2.2 million dollar computing system that Hall had installed in the basement of the Undergraduate Science Center last year...
Listening to Hall talk about the Delta 2000 is like listening to a Jewish mother talk about her son who just got into Harvard; overwhelming pride, boastful enthusiasm and the sense that the god-gifted off-spring can do just about anything in the world are the common repertoire of the Jewish mom and the father of Harvard's Delta. For Hall, the Delta 2000 is what Harvard--if not life itself--is all about...
...this were not enough cause for wonder, the Delta 2000 is hooked up to a little slide projector filled with schematic diagrams of the utility systems used throughout the University. When something goes wrong, all the attendant on duty has to do is to push a specially coded number into the computer's logic system and the diagram pops onto a television sized siren that sits next to the computer console. Without leaving his seat, he can see what's wrong...
...video capacity of the computer still weren't enough to make you realize that this baby is as space-aged as they come, the Delta has an intercom system over which the interested bystander can tune in the sound of some powerful fan blowing away up in the Science Center...
...Delta 2000, a product of Honeywell Industries, is, no doubt, an exquisite piece of machinery and Hall's pride for his prize purchase is somewhat understandable. But keep in mind that I for one cannot relate to computers and I am only a little better at relating to people who develop a deep, emotional rapport with them...