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...showing how a modified Apple II computer could be used to direct missile firing and communications. The Reagan Administration has been trying to crack down on the export of powerful computers to the Soviet Union, and last December Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed off just such a machine, a VAX by Digital Equipment, that had been halted as it was about to be shipped. Now the U.S. is trying to stop the export of some microcomputers...
Meichun Hsu, an instructor in computer science, says that the use of home computers will give students greater flexibility in their courses, but adds, "there will still have to be some coordination." Programs developed on the mainframe VAX System would somehow "have to make their way" onto the students' personal computers, she says...
...other 140 students in CS 11 who are not in the experimental section are using the centralized VAX system that has been used in the past...
...other recent moves to modernize Harvard's computer facilities, the University purchased two new $200,000 VAX computers last September to add to the Science Center facilities...
...other computers include a VAX 11/780, two VAX 11/750's and two PDP 11/70...