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Minicomputer selection and implementation

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 1

Pages 6 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/382063.803352

Published: 01 February 1977 Publication History

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Technological advances in large-scale integrated circuits have caused mini and micro computer usage to multiply in the last few years. This behooves academic to treat the mini/micro phenomenon adequately. The same multiplication process, however, makes choosing a minicomputer all the more difficult. The problem is compounded by the hardware and electronics knowledge required to attain the best price advantage. This paper describes how one academic computer department selected and implemented a minicomputer on a restricted budget. It is written primarily for the reader without extensive knowledge of hardware electronics.

This article is a description of the experiences of one academic computer department¹ in buying, installing, and using an academic minicomputer. It is directed primarily to those having little or no expertise in electronics or computer hardware design. This description is in response to a number of inquiries of “What did you do?” It is a step-by-step description and, as such, is quite specific to our particular system, with which we have been well pleased. It is offered as a guide of experience both to those who might obtain a similar system and as a case to others as well.

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Auerbach, Op. Cit., pp 47, 157.

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Ibid., p 158.

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These software prices have now increased: Fortran - $800, Basic - $700, and RT-II - $850 (October, 1976).

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Eckhouse, Minicomputer Systems: Organization and Programming (PDP-II) (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1975).

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Stoddard S(1978)A mini computer courseACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/990654.99060910:1(157-159)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1978
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/990654.990609
Stoddard SWilliams K(1978)A mini computer coursePapers of the SIGCSE/CSA technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/990555.990609(157-159)Online publication date: 23-Feb-1978
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/990555.990609
Stoddard S(1978)A mini computer courseACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/990654.99060910:1(157-159)Online publication date: 1-Feb-1978
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/990654.990609
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Minicomputer selection and implementation
1. Computer systems organization
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Implementation management
        Hardware selection

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 9, Issue 1

Special issue seventh technical symposium on computer science education

Feb 1977

187 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/382063

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SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 1977
187 pages
ISBN:9781450374071
DOI:10.1145/800104
Chairman:
Richard H. Austing

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