New computer to replace IBM-7040
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.
Richard Hetherington, director of the computation center, said General Electric Corporation has promised delivery of the GE 625 computer in the week beginning Oct.31.
The new system, which will be leased, 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.
THE MACHINE IS SO FAST the control unit and the memory unit must be within eight feet of
one another, Hetherington said, or the electrical control impulses won't reach the memory unit in time to tell it what to do.
The capacity to handle several problems at once is brand new, Hetherington 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.
Present equipment is operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Hetherington explained.
The new computer can be hooked into "remote terminal" systems, so the School of Medicine in Kansas City, for example, can program a question there
send it by telephone line or, later, micro-wave relay, to the computation center in Lawrence, and get an answer back automatically.
"IT IS WITHIN THE capacity of the 625 for each user to be in direct contact with the computer and to obtain instantaneous answers to questions. He could follow up an idea immediately, see its consequences, and act upon it." Hetherington said.
"If all the possibilities are realized, administrators could query central records for a variety of information and get immediate answers in their offices by teletype or similar devices."
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$\textcircled{6}$ Vocational education in Kansas can further the state's industrial growth and slow down the exodus of its youth to other states.
- If elected, Docking promises to designate a member of his staff to keep the governor informed of educational needs and to work with educational organizations.
- The Teacher's Retirement program, Docking says, must be funded so that retired teachers will not experience economic hardship.
After the candidates presented their platforms, questions were asked by a panel of leading Kansas educators, including Mrs. Vern Converse, President, Kansas Parent-Teacher Congress; J. A. Tender, Newton superintendent,
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and M. A McGeehee, Executive Secretary, Kansas Association of School Boards, Topeka.
Gov. Avery said, when asked about the future of rural education, unification has seemingly solved the problems of substandard instruction in rural areas.
In discussing public finance of education, he said elementary and public schools are receiving $252 million with $80 million coming from the state.
A TOTAL of $100 million is spent annually on colleges and universities.
However such hook-ups are still in the future.
Gov. Avery said two dimensions of education are rapidly changing the scope in Kansas: junior colleges and area technical-vocational schools.
"These institutions must be financed, too," he said. "And if we are to maintain them adequately, taxes will have to remain increased."
The governor promised neither of the new dimensions would infringe upon the other essential parts of the Kansas system.
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The new computer makes possible additional advances in fields in which significant work is progressing at KU, such as petroleum engineering, numerical taxonomy, geological mapping, and library
science, which depend on the combination of memory and speed, the "brute force," of the machine, Hetherington said.
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Use of the computer systems at KU has expanded from 258 projects in fiscal 1965 to 459 projects in fiscal 1966 and from 2,986 machine hours in fiscal 1965 to 5,318 machine hours in fiscal 1966. The latter figure is somewhat misleading. Hetherington said, because the 7040 system was expanded in fiscal 1966 to speed up the operations.
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KU traffic and security officers are investigating the report of stolen clothing valued at $175 taken from a car over the weekend.
Tom Glennon, Shawnec Mission senior, reported that a suit and additional clothing were taken from his car Sunday night while it was parked behind the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house.
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