GE 625 is super-speedy
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New computer set for KU
The new system, a GE 625, will be leased from General Electric Corporation. It will replace an IBM 7040 and a GE 415 installed in 1965. The 7040 can call up a word from its memory section in eight-millionths of a second. The new computer can call up two words in two-millionths of a second, according to Richard Hetherington, director of the computation center.
A computer capable of handling several problems at once, and so fast the speed of electricity limits it, will be delivered to KU within the next two weeks.
The machine is so fast the control unit and the memory unit must be within eight feet of one another, or the electrical control impulses won't reach the memory unit in time to tell it what to do, Hetherington said.
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The capacity to handle several problems at once is brand new, he said. Computers with multi-problem capacity were developed for commercial use only within the last 18 months. Earlier computers could handle only one problem at a time.
The new computer can be hooked into "remote terminal" systems,
Present equipment is operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Hetherington explained.
Gene Doane
Agency 824 Mass. St.
so the School of Medicine in Kansas City, for example, can program a question there, send it by telephone line or, later, microwave relay, to the computation center in Lawrence, and get an answer back automatically.
Friday, October 21, 1966
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