University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 23, 1987 5 KU changes computer system By KJERSTI MOEN Staff writer The University of Kansas is changing its computer systems. Honeywell is out. VAX and IBM are in. The computer center, which houses the brain for most academic computer use at KU, is ready to replace the Honeywell with the VAX and IBM systems. The Honeywell will be disconnected July 1 after serving KU since 1979. Herbert Harris, assistant director for computing services' academic user services, said students and faculty who used the University's computers would need to become familiar with the new systems by July 1, if they had not already done so. Users must learn how to execute computer programs on a different system, using different tools and different commands to obtain access to the system and to their own files, he said. Users may lose their computer files if they do not transfer them from the Honeywell system to either the VAX 8600 or the IBM 3031 AP systems by July 1 or earlier, he said. Nancy Hopkins, Lawrence graduate student, said, "It's a totally different procedure. You just have to relearn everything." Hopkins said she used manuals and handouts to learn how to use the new $700,000 system. She is using compu- ter work toward a doctorate degree. John Corvin, Fairway senior, said he had learned how to convert to the new system through trial and error. He had experimented mostly on his laptop and computer center's user manuals but not sufficiently detailed for his needs. Harris said the computer center had circulated manuals and newsletter and organized seminars to help users convert. He was still concerned that some people might run into problems because they procrastinated or did not know about the change. Although the disconnection date is July 1, the computer center will discontinue maintenance on the Honewell June 1. it may run before it breaks down." Harris said. The high costs of maintaining the Honeywell computer is one reason computing services decided to change its academic computer system. "After that, no one knows how long Jerry Niebaum, director of computing services, said that one year's maintenance of the Honeywell computer costs about $200,000. By comparison, the VAX computer's annual maintenance cost is about $70,000. Compatibility with other universities' computer systems was another reason KU's computing services decided to change systems. Niebaum said, "The two most popular systems with other schools and the X team." "We wanted to get into the main stream of computing." Harris said. When different schools use the same computer systems, users in different parts of the country can communicate with each other. The reason for example exchange research data or computer exchanges through the computers. Former classics professor dies By a Kansan reporter Mary Amelia Grant, former associate professor of Latin and Greek and a member of the KU Women's Hall of Fame, died Tuesday at a local nursing home. She was 96. A commemoration service was held Saturday in Danforth Chapel. Burial was yesterday afternoon in Topeka. Miss Grant received bachelor's and master's degrees from KU in 1913 and 1914 and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1919. She joined the KU faculty in 1921 and retired in 1960. Miss Grant taught courses in Greek and Latin languages and literatures, and Greek and Roman mythology, architecture and sculpture. She also had four books published. "She was a very quiet lady and was extremely sharp," said Oliver Philips, professor of classics. "She had a sly wit that took us by surprise and delighted us. 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