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Most of the time fewer than the maximum 32 are in use, and the answering signal precedes a minute or two of silence during which the caller turns from telephone to teletype and begins to make conversation. If no teletype contact is established during that period, the computer gas impatient...
The SDS 940, core of Harvard's time-sharing computer network, has an unlisted phone number. Dialing that number rewards the caller with a unique, minor-key whistle, or else a busy signal, if 32 of some 125 SDS teletype units distributed around the University are already in conversation with...
Bell Telephone installs the teletypes, or "consoles," for $75 a month plus line charges, and, according to David D. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computer Center, is the only institution to clear a profit off time-sharing. For the Computer Center, and for Harvard, the attraction of the SDS...
Time-sharing and batch-processing are opposite methods of computer work. With the first, the users are "on-line," which means the computer functions precisely when it is asked to by the user; with the second, efficient use of the computer requires htat the user assemble problems of just the...
When the Computer Center was first built, in 1946-47, there was considerable interest in the design of computers. Now, says Dix, "we're only interested in using them." Software--specialized programs--has replaced hardware--computers--as the Center's main area of innovation.