Computer selection procedures
- 1 January 1968
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 679-683
- https://doi.org/10.1145/800186.810632
Abstract
During the early 1960's and prior to third generation computers, several computer centers developed at each of most large universities. One central computer facility provided computing for the majority of the users while several other computers, operating independently, served other special functions. In the early stage of development the central facility was an “open shop” operation. As demand for increased computer power and the number of customers increased, economics dictated a “closed shop” operation preventing user-machine interaction. When it became necessary to operate the central facility under “closed shop” procedures, some heavy users opened their own centers retaining the “open shop” method of operation.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: