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Jared Israel, co-chairman of SDS, picked up his shopping bag containing booklets on free speech which he sells and moved with his friends to Holyoke Center...
...tune of "Jingle Bells" the SDS carolers sang...
...consoles are inadequate, says Mosteller, because "it is possible for a man to think up a legitimate problem that would tie up the computer." The SDS 940's on-line operation involves a relatively small amount of total input, even when all 32 possible teletypes are in contact...
Simultaneously time-sharing has started to expand faster than batch-processing. The Medical School, and medicine in general, have started buying large chunks of time on the SDS 940. One new project responsible for this upsurge is a heart-care unit to monitor continuous heart-patient problems, and to detect subtler signs of danger than the cardiologist can ordinarily hope to notice. Consoles also aid interviews with patients suspected of having genetic problems, by rapidly accumulating genetic history...
...rule, computer work done by math, statistics and physics students is of the sort the SDS can accommodate: small in input, even when the solution process is complex. The Humanities and Social Sciences, and in some cases the Natural Sciences, often require work with a much larger input, sometimes too large for the time-sharing system...