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Christopher D. Carroll ’86—a self-professed computer geek—said he had an Apple II computer as early as high school and co-founded the Harvard Computer Society when he came to college. The club sponsored demonstrations of the Apple IIC in lecture...
Carroll said that Harvard lagged behind some other universities that had already created formal computer science concentrations. Until Carroll was a junior, the only academic option available was to be an applied math major with a specialty in computer science.
Joseph A. Konstan ’87, former President of the Harvard Computer Society, came to the University the first year computer science was a formal concentration in 1984. Konstan, now a computer science professor at the University of Minnesota, said that enrollment in computer science classes at the introductory...
And it was an era when computer science students worked late at night—often using terminals in the Science Center—because the systems worked much faster at night when there was less traffic. As many as 60 people could be sharing a system at once.
In addition, as early as 1983, every student had access to what was called a “low priority” computer account with 10 kilobytes of storage—about five typed pages. These storage accounts were created so students could do the programming work required to fulfill...