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...cannot be seriously charged that Harvard is ignoring this movement, or even that it has not made substantive efforts to upgrade its computing system. A concentration in computer science has been created, a new VAX has been purchased, and word processors have been installed in undergraduate Houses. Harvard produces important computer research and turns out numerous capable programmers at every Commencement. Something is being done, but altogether not enough...
...battle stations jammed with the latest computer hardware, they slide plastic "pucks" across electronic graphics tablets to command the full paraphernalia of modern war: tanks and personnel carriers, jets and helicopters, artillery pieces chemical munitions and an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine can display in full topographical detail any 15-sq.-mi. slice of the earth, from the Straits of Hormuz to the Falkland Islands, although the game is most often played on West...
...larger than expected enrollment in a new course, Applied Sciences 11, "Computers, Algorithms, and Programs," has resulted in a little overcrowding of the new VAX 11/780 computer, the course's teacher, Harry R. Lewis '68, McKay Professor of Computer Science, said yesterday...
Because of a 13-per-cent educational discount and a special agreement between Harvard's Aiken Computation Laboratory and the Digital Equipment Corporation, which sells the VAX and PDP line of computers, the University paid only about one half of the computer's regular price, officials said...
...VAX computer, which has a 32-bit memory, is considerably more powerful than the two HRSTS computers it joins--both PDP 11/70 computers. The new computer has roughly double the amount of disk storage and can do calculations much faster than the old ones...