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Fridav. September 19, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Computers
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Once the environmental requirements are determined for the chosen computer vendor, those requirements will be relayed to the manufacturer for the new computation center, he said.
The final evaluation team will study the contracts of the various vendors, looking at such matters as how fast emergency maintenance is guaranteed on the system and whether the computer vendor understands that his work includes an initial period during which the University will use the 'systems' ability to KT KU's needs.
Wulf said that the benchmarking should be completed by Thanksgiving, and that the project would be finished by the beginning of 1976, with installation dates predicted for the spring.
Burglaries occur here
Burglaries reportedly stole about $51,000 in merchandise from a U-Haul trailer sometime Wednesday night or early yesterday morning.
Charles Anthony Ashard, 46, San Diego, told police he had parked the trailer near the intersection of Sikth and Maine streets at the Westview Mote). 1313 W. Sikth St.
Ayash said he was returning to San Diego from Boston, where he had purchased $1,000 worth of shoes, clothing and bolts of material.
Police said that a pry bar had apparently been used to brew k milk on a lock of the 24-foot fountain.
Ayash said the only time he had mentioned anything about the contents of the trailer was when he had talked to a young woman in a moulte hotel in Kansas City,
The trailer was carrying 40 cartons of shoes, valued at $24,000, 15 boxes of men's and women's costs, worth $15,000 and 20 totes. The equipment, valued at $12,000, according to Avash.
Sales slips for the stolen goods were shown to police by Ayash, who said the stolen items were worth $400.
In another burglar, thieves pried open a double-door to the basement of Herbite 's 785 Massachusetts St. went upstairs into the kitchen and uncovered vending and amusement machines.
Gary P. Kluck, manager of the bar, said the loss was probably about $500 in cash plus several hundred dollars in damage to the machines.
A similar burglary occurred at Herbie's about five months ago, and the same method of operation was used, according to police.
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James Terry, director of administration information systems, said that even though the acquisition of the new computer would have made him less confident he didn't think it would miss its schedule.
Waife said the new computer system mainly should help students by reducing the turn-around time, which is the time between the submission of a program and the return of that program. Right now, the turn around period takes from two to four hours, he said.
The computer specifications teams have asked vendors for systems that would reduce turn-around time to 10 minutes for 50 servers and 20 minutes for 20 minutes for 90 per cent of their work.
The system will also help to speed up the delivery of information from the computer system to various administrative offices, he said.
No conversion cost was asked of vendors for the student records information, Wolfe said. All computer vendors have been asked to specify in their bids an alternative student records system to KU's present one, he said.
People who work on the specifications teams hope that the new system will eventually help to computerize pre-enrollment, Wolfe said, but pre-enrollment wouldn't be immediately adaptable to the new system.
Basically, the cost evaluations procedures try to insure that the various computer systems won't cause the University any hidden costs. Woe said.
The evaluation teams will match the "real costs" of equipment that the vendors fail to offer in their bids into their cost analyses, and they will consider what costs KU will incur through the installation of that equipment, he said.
Because some of the evaluation converts qualitative information contained in the computer bids into quantitative information or monetary terms, the judgment of the final cost analysis is somewhat subjective, he said.
Because of that subjectivity, Wofa said, each computer vendor will be able to review the item assigned to non-contractual items once the final selection of the successful bid.
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