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Harvard has also recently purchased three new VAX computers worth more than $200,000 each, added more than 25 new terminals in the Science Center, and established seven new offices to monitor and maintain the University's computers...
...computer--a VAX 11/780 worth approximately $200,000--will be used mainly for instruction in higher level computer courses, and for specialized faculty research...
...machine should arrive sometime this week with two new VAX 11/750 computers also ordered this fall, Lance Jackson, a Science Center official handing computers, said...
...Friday morning last June, Chen Chui, systems manager of the hospital's medical physics computer service, discovered to his great astonishment that a Digital VAX 11/780 computer, which monitors the radiation treatment for 250 patients, had inexplicably failed during the night. Looking into the machine's log, he found that a file of billing records worth about $1,500 was missing and that passwords had been issued to five unauthorized accounts. Chui deleted the new names and took the extra precaution of replacing all the passwords for those authorized to change patient records...
...options are currently under consideration. One calls for the purchase of several more of the VAX computers currently in use at the Science Center, while the other involves the purchase of a much larger or mainframe computer. While the fast-changing technology and the unpredictable future student demand for computer time make a wait-and-see attitude appealing to University planners, the egregious inadequacy of Harvard's computer facilities demands immediate and appropriate remedy...