Word: dix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competition consists of four other computers ranging from the IBM 1401, which Dix describes as "old and uninteresting" and which is now used principally for printing output; to the IBM 360-50, a more modern affair which, among its other duties, analyzes data from the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; to the two IBM 7094's, giant computers which solve complex problems in organized batches, hence the title "batch-processing...
When the Computer Center was first built, in 1946-47, there was considerable interest in the design of computers. Now, says Dix, "we're only interested in using them." Software--specialized programs--has replaced hardware--computers--as the Center's main area of innovation...
...other major recommendations of the committee are directed toward increased instructional use of computers. At present, Dix says, "I would guess that about 80 per cent of the money spent here is for research, and most of the remaining 20 per cent for classroom use, probably most of that by the Business School." The committee asks that "the instructional use of computers should have a priority equivalent to that of the research uses...
Though the Center does virtually no direct work for the government, it receives a good deal of Federal Funds. Enough, Dix says, that it must abide by the government's edict against idle time being used free of cost by students. The Center must collect for every job done on its computers, and for what technical assistance it give those who use its facilities...
...concerns has been how to make more students use possible in the face of this requirement," Dix says...