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Frost Collection Digitized
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Kiewit Public Terminal Room: John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz,
students
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"A Concordance to the Poetry of Robert Frost," edited by Edward
Connery Lathem, librarian of Dartmouth College, was produced with the
aid of the College's Kiewit Computation Center. President John G.
Kemeny supervised the planning and programming of the computer project
that involved "the largest body of data ever stored by the Dartmouth computer
for a single project." (The Dartmouth, 1/26/72)
Project Conduit Funded
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Kiewit Public Terminal Room
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The National Science Foundation granted Dartmouth, the University of Texas,
Oregon State University, the North Carolina Educational Computing Services
Center, and the University of Iowa a total of $450,000 to participate in
Project Conduit. The goal of the project was to "provide reliable information
about programs and related course materials at several institutions, and to
test the mechanics of moving programs from one computing system to
another."
Library Acquisition System Operational
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Baker Library Card Catalog
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Dartmouth reported that the new automated acquisition system in the Library
was fully operational and had been successfully networked with the computer
facilities of the Kiewit Computation Center. (Portsmouth Herald,
7/15/72) See Dartmouth College
Library.
General Electric Honored
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Kiewit Public Terminal Room
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A plaque honoring the contributions of the General Electric (GE) company to
the development of time sharing at Dartmouth was unveiled. The ceremony
recognized the completion of a six-year joint effort by Dartmouth College and
General Electric, during which GE contributed more than $3,000,000 worth of
computer equipment.
DTSS Uptime Was at 99.53 Percent
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Kiewit Public Terminal Room, Calcomp 565 Plotter
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The Performance Report for September 1972 showed that DTSS was
up 99.53 percent of scheduled operating hours; that nearly 20,000
hours were logged at terminals throughout the network; and that 313,258 jobs
were processed during the month. The maximum number of simultaneous users
observed was 113, and the average user load was 88.98.
Tuck System Upgraded
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Using the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System at Tuck
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Tuck School students were pleased to hear that the CRIII (Computer Research
Involving Investment Information) system at Tuck had been replaced by a newer,
more versatile program, LAFFF (Language for the Aid of Financial Fact
Finders).
DTSS Incorporated
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William Schillhammer, Kiewit Machine Room
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DTSS Incorporated, a taxable corporation wholly owned by the Trustees of
Dartmouth College, was formed to market DTSS software to educational and
commercial organizations. Officers of the corporation were Rodney
Morgan, president; Robert F. Hargraves, executive
vice president; Thomas E. Kurtz, director; Thomas E.
Byrne, treasurer and director; W. Leslie Peat,
secretary and director; John S. McGeachie, director; and
Donald L. Krieder, director.
Project FIND Developed
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John S. Geachie, Warren Montgomery '73, Thomas E. Kurtz
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Project FIND (Forecasting Institutional Needs at Dartmouth) was developed on
the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System "to make information about the College
readily available to department heads, faculty, administrators, and trustees."
John S. McGeachie was director of the project that was funded in part by a
$200,000 gift from the Rockefeller Brothers' Foundation. Planned uses of the
system included "maintenance and analysis of data on alumni giving, students,
and budgeting for the College." (Note: In January 1990, FIND
databases continued to provide information essential to the management of the
College.)
COM Series Catalog Implemented
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Stephen Garland, Thomas E. Byrne, Nancy Broadhead, John McGeachie,
Thomas E. Kurtz, Evelyn Bonney, John G. Kemeny
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A COM (Computer Operated Microfiche) serials catalog was implemented by the
Library.
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