Word: pandiscio
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...Depending on the franchise and how they construct the system, and barring any unforeseen types of things, my guess is that roughly one year after they start constructing, the city will be nearly wired," said Electronics Professor A. A. Pandiscio, who currently overseas Harvard's two existing cable systems...
...network, the fifteen year-old Harvard Information Transfer System (HITS), performs "relatively routine" tasks such as telecasting medical school seminars and transmitting data. Pandiscio added that because HITS is built with outdated technology, it only has the capacity to carry one program at any given time...
...Pandiscio said he welcomes the city's new cable system since it might connect more Harvard buildings, especially in the outlying parts of the campus...
Dean of the Division Paul C. Martin '51 yesterday mentioned leasing Macintoshes at below-market rates, in lieu of outright sales, as one possible strategy. "It is not our purpose to help students make a quick buck," Martin explains. Alfred A. Pandiscio, associate director of information technology, added that the initial PC's "will probably go to those persons who would make the best use of it," though he did not indicate how such distribution decisions might be made...
...Pandiscio said he and other Harvard representatives have sat in on some city council meetings concerning cable. The university has not officially begun planning how it would use the cable system, because the details of the Cambridge plan have not yet been decided, he added...