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Students enrolled in specified computer courses have restricted use of two VAX 11/780 computers...
...other recent moves to modernize Harvard computer facilities the University purchased two new $200,000 VAX computer from Digital last September for instructional use in the Science Center...
...aboard. They promptly ordered three 20-ft.-long containers to be hoisted by crane onto dry land. As the container ship headed toward Sweden several hours behind schedule, authorities opened the boxes. All their suspicions were confirmed: inside was a roomful of U.S.-made computer equipment, including a giant VAX 11/782, a powerful computer that can be used, among other things, for guiding missiles and keeping track of troops. The Soviets lack the resources to build such equipment themselves...
Manufactured by Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Mass., and valued at more than $2.5 million, the VAX is the most precious cargo to be seized during the Reagan Administration's 25-month drive to block the illegal shipment of sophisticated machinery to the Soviet world. But it is not the first such catch. "Operation Exodus," a special task force involving 300 full-time customs agents, has confiscated more than 2,300 illegal shipments worth nearly $150 million since its launching in 1981. Still, the leaks seem to appear as fast as authorities can plug them. In West Germany alone...
Technology smuggling has, moreover, become both efficient and elaborate. The VAX was bought by an unidentified firm in New York State and apparently shipped by air to South Africa. Then, authorities suspect, a West German named Richard Mueller arranged to have the computer transported via Sweden to the Soviet Union. Mueller, who owns a fleet of shadowy companies with ever shifting names, has already been implicated in two major violations of U.S. export...