Resource center installs
computers during summer
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By Jena Dahhaan Doama
Most computing activities at UNL
will be in transition this summer as the
Computing Resource Center completes
installation of two Control Data Cor
poration computers and 260 compu
ter terminals, the director of the resource
center said.
Doug Gale said the two computers, a
CDC 815 and a larger CDC 835, should
be installed by September. The two
computers and another CDC 8 1 5, which
is currently in Ferguson Hall, will be
installed in a specially-desired machine
in the Nebraska Engineering Center,
Gale said.
The university will also get 260 com
puter terminals from Control Data.
They will be installed, a few at the time,
throughout campus during the fall,
Gale said. Of the 260 terminals, 60 are
specially-designed educational PLATO
terminals.
As the CDC computers are installed,
Gale said, UNL students and researchers
will use fewer of the IBM computers
operated by the university-wide Com
puter Services network.
Virgil Ward, operations and systems
coordinator for the resource center,
said future users will have to "pay as
they go" if they want to purchase time
on the Computer Service's IBM com-
puters.
Gale said UNL is remodeling the
room that will house the CDC compu
ters, equipping it with power islands,
air conditioning and a raised floor.
Although UNL set July 1 as the date to
finish the room, Gale said, "we're hop
ing to finish sometime in August."
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After the room is finished, he said,
the three CDC's should be in place
within a few weeks.
Planning for that terminal installa
tion should begin in about a month,
Gale said. Installing the CDCs will be a
gradual, "one-by-one" process, that wont
be finished until December. First prior
ity, he said, would be to install termi
nals that the entire campus can use,
rather than benefit single departments.
Some terminals already installed on
campus will also be accessible to the
CDC computers, Gale said.
Student instruction will have first
priority on the CDC computers, Gale
said, with research a second priority.
One of the smaller CDC 81 5 computers
will be devoted entirely to the educa
tional PLATO terminals. The second
CDC 815 will be used mostly by stu
dents in introductory computer courses.
Advanced students and researchers
with longer, more time-consuming pro
grams will use the larger CDC 835, Gale
said.
As the computers are installed, he
said, the resource center will train
consultants and develop other user
support services. UNL must also decide
whether to provide non-traditional ser
vices such as a computer bulletin board
or student word-processing, he said.
Gale said he expects all areas of UNL
to use the CDC computers, not just the
computer science and engineering de
partments. UNL received the computers and
terminals from Control Data Corpora
tion as a $3.2 million package, of which
Control Data donated $1.7 million.
UNL purchased the remaining $1.5
million worth of equipment.
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The endowment of more than
$100,000 to UNL's College of Engineer
ing and Technology should spark grad
uate research, the college dean said.
Stanley Liberty said the endowment,
a gift from the wife of a former UNL
engineering student, is unusual because
it is unrestricted. Most endowments,
he said, are given specifically for the
support of undergraduate students.
But the Hazelle Campbell Scholarship
can be used in any way the depart
ment sees fit.
Besides using the endowment itself,
Liberty said he expects the depart
ment to use the $10,000 yearly interest
earned from the endowment to fund
one undergraduate and one graduate
student a year.
The graduate program needs more
financial support because most endow
ments go to the undergraduate pro
gram, he said. However, he said, in the
last three years there has been a in-
ln unrestricted and graduate
endowments which helps the gradu
ate students.
This is a response to the need for
engineering research, essential for
future economic development. Liberty
said. Graduate work in engineering
usually emphasizes research, which is
good for the economy, and, in turn,
benefits the private sector.
In addition to lack of funds, Liberty
said lack of interest on the part of stu
dents and business also stifled research.
Businesses preferred to hire people
with bachelors degrees in engineering
and offered them high salaries, he said.
This discouraged students from enter
ing graduate school, he said. But in the
last three years, Liberty said businesses
have discovered that the funding of
graduate research is an advantage.
The payoffs from research are not as
immediate, he said, but often larger.
With this increase in interest in re
search, Liberty said, more students
will pursue advanced engineering
degrees, benefitting both the economy
and the engineering school.
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