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Bell Telephone installs the teletypes, or "consoles," for $75 a month plus line charges, and, according to David D. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computer Center, is the only institution to clear a profit off time-sharing. For the Computer Center, and for Harvard, the attraction of the SDS 940 lies in its ability to solve comparatively small problems instantly, and to serve users all over the University...
...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...
...year later, in 1955, the dance group directed the writing and producing of a pageant about the life of Dorthea Lynde Dix. Miss Dix, famous for her campaigns to improve treatment of the mentally ill, was instrumental in the federal government's founding of St. Elizabeth's a century before...
...differed little between flight-stress days and relaxed, off-duty days. They tallied closely with what Dr. Bourne deduced from flying and talking with the men on dangerous missions. On the average, they showed less reaction to stress than do draftees undergoing basic training at Fort Dix, NJ. When the stress and danger were real, the men suppressed their anxiety and related reactions. One man, an unquestioning Roman Catholic, was convinced that God would look after him. Another, with a parimutuel mentality, had painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed...