Thanks for starting this thread Graham. I agree with Lucy, it has been a
great read.
I did some searching and found this article, written in 1998 for the Hall's
30th anniversary, which talks about the Hall's 1970's "Friday Project",
connecting kids with computers. Unfortunately it doesn't name
Looks like it may have been an HP 2000B
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=411
The NOVA was succeeded by an HP. The 2000B had a list price somewhere
between $50,000 and $90,000 from the referenced site. That site is
Australian, so this may be AUS$ prices.
Those things ran magnetic
The Wikipedia information is interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Hall_of_Science but we do not
have verification.
Graham
On 1/21/16 11:32 AM, Graham Patterson wrote:
> We received this request via our web contact address, and realized that
> our records are incomplete (it is
hello"
this thread has been fantastic to read i wish a grad student would take
some time to write up the history of computing on campus by
interviewing all of you and more of the people that made computing here
at Berkeley. cheers to all of you that have been here to see us grow and
become a
Hi Jon,
Not quite. The main academic computer from 1967-1982 was the CDC 6400 (in
Campbell Hall basement until 1971 then in Evans Hall). From sometime
before 1962 the 7040/7090 Direct Couple system, or its predecessor, was
the main system (I learned to program on it, FORTRAN/MAP in 1962); it
My sister worked in at the Lawrence Hall of science back in the day maybe
I'll ask her what she remembers - I know we were fascinated as kids that we
could make a picture out of letters and punctuation etc. Turns out my
brother saved something he made way back when in one of his treasure
boxes.
Didn't those NOVAs have hamsters on wheels that make the gears grind to
get the punch cards out?
Alex Warren
CED IIT
University of California, Berkeley
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Berkeley, CA 94720
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Bruce wrote:
> When I came back in 81 to 83, the business school had its own DEC in the
> basement of Barrows. It was a miracle - you could do your work from one of
> those blue ascii terminals and get instant results.
Those blue terminals *might* have been ADM-3s or ADM-3As. An up-close
look
