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E. P. Miles, Jr.

E. P. Miles, Jr. -14PANELIST NO. 3: E. P. Miles, Jr., Director, Computing Center, Florida State University This is my tenth year as Director of the Florida State University Computing Center. I have taken pride in our a b i l i t y to expand f a c i l i t i e s and services to meet the rapidly growing service demands of research and instructional users throughout the university. In July 1961 we were operating a card oriented IBM 650 drum computer at saturation levels and looking forward to the f i r s t of several major system changes to occur in the next decade. By July 1970 our throughput level with our current 65K CDC 6400 system was approximately 500 times that which prevailed nine years earlier when we saturated our f i r s t hardware system, a service growth rate nearly equivalent to annual doubling for nine straight years. Due to improved price-performance properties and economies of scale,applying to the later hardware, our annual budgets during this same period have grown by only a factor of about 18 (~1,260K vs 7OK), so that the cost of an average job in 1970 is less than http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter Association for Computing Machinery

E. P. Miles, Jr.

Miles Jr., E. P.
ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter , Volume 1 (1-71) – Jan 6, 1971
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-14PANELIST NO. 3: E. P. Miles, Jr., Director, Computing Center, Florida State University This is my tenth year as Director of the Florida State University Computing Center. I have taken pride in our a b i l i t y to expand f a c i l i t i e s and services to meet the rapidly growing service demands of research and instructional users throughout the university. In July 1961 we were operating a card oriented IBM 650 drum computer at saturation levels and looking forward to the f i r s t of several major system changes to occur in the next decade. By July 1970 our throughput level with our current 65K CDC 6400 system was approximately 500 times that which prevailed nine years earlier when we saturated our f i r s t hardware system, a service growth rate nearly equivalent to annual doubling for nine straight years. Due to improved price-performance properties and economies of scale,applying to the later hardware, our annual budgets during this same period have grown by only a factor of about 18 (~1,260K vs 7OK), so that the cost of an average job in 1970 is less than

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Published: Jan 6, 1971

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