UCLA Computer Club punched card at National Museum of American History
I just discovered that the National Museum of American History has a
UCLA Computer Club "Moose" IBM card as a display. The moose was there
since the IBM 360/91 was the only system that most students had access
to at that time, and was used in batch mode (students not working on
our ARPA projects that most students and faculty didn't even know
existed at UCLA that is). The museum URL says this dates from the 60s,
but it actually extended well into the 70s.
The Campus Computing Network's (CCN, not to be confused with CNN!)
91's resource usage was billed in so-called Machine Unit Seconds
(MUS - ah, Moose!), that different departments and projects were allocated
for their work. Of course the museum write-up doesn't discuss any of
that backstory. I have multiple decks of these cards around somewhere
from some classes where I had to submit jobs that way, even though I
was simultaneously working on ARPANET.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_690512
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