Private computer system unique
One KU professor has his own private computer, and says that before long there will be classrooms equipped with computers for each class member.
The computers, however, will be 1500 miles away.
F. JAMES ROHLF, associate professor of statistical biology, has a console in the room next to his office in Snow Hall. The console is hooked to a master computer at the University of California at
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Santa Barbara. The only other Santa Barbara hook-up east of the Rockies is at Harvard.
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The computer, of course, is not Rohlif's private property. Besides Harvard, the University of California at Livermore, UCLA, and the console's manufacturer in Van Nuys, Calif., also are tied into the computer.
With the on-line system, Rohlf can tell immediately if a program is valid. He, too, may have to start over, but he can change the program in mid-stride or start over in minutes.
Rohif says that soon KU could have an entire classroom equipped with these consoles. This would enable each class member to have his own computer for private use. This, however, won't be for many years because of the high cost.
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The cost of the program, the initial installation cost $35,000 and Rohif has a $1,000 a month telephone bill, is paid by a National Science Foundation grant.
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"RIGHT NOW I would like to have just one additional console for student use," said Rohlf.
The console consists of two sample keyboards, one of which looks like an ordinary typewriter. The other contains mathematical shorthand. Some of the keys also will draw lines at any angle, so the operator can draw on the viewing screen. Information comes back on a small screen. Rohlf can
Rohlf cannot tie into the new KU computer yet because the guidance programs necessary for his type of investigations have not been developed; it has taken four people, including Rohlf, three years to write the proper programs for the Santa Barbara computer.
KU OFFICIALS hope to install similar hook-ups between the computer on the campus and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
tell the machine to give him individual numbers or draw graphs representing all the numbers.
THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGE of the on-line computer systems, as the remote tie-ins are called, is that Rohlf and the computer can "talk" to one another. With most computers, scientists can only feed in laboriously punched cards and wait for the results. If the scientist makes a mistake in his program, he has to start over, usually several hours or even a day later.
Daily Kansan Thursday, February 9, 1967
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