Word: sds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SDS 940, core of Harvard's time-sharing computer network, has an unlisted phone number. Dialing that number rewards the caller with a unique, minor-key whistle, or else a busy signal, if 32 of some 125 SDS teletype units distributed around the University are already in conversation with the central computer...
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...
Simultaneously time-sharing has started to expand faster than batch-processing. The Medical School, and medicine in general, have started buying large chunks of time on the SDS 940. One new project responsible for this upsurge is a heart-care unit to monitor continuous heart-patient problems, and to detect subtler signs of danger than the cardiologist can ordinarily hope to notice. Consoles also aid interviews with patients suspected of having genetic problems, by rapidly accumulating genetic history...
...Ellen Klein '68, co-chairman of SDS, and Peter J. Bilazarian '69, member of the executive committee, distributed their two-page mimeographed "white paper" after yesterday's 11 a.m. lecture. Bilazarian said last night that the critique, which also bears the names of Lawrence M. Robinson GS-1 and Steven W. Raudenbush '68--both SDS members--was not officially approved by SDS...
...said that SDS would argue its position--that the University is not neutral--at an open meeting Thursday night...