The University of Kentucky Computing Center

http://www.uky.edu/ComputingCenter/ (World Wide Web Directory, ~04/1995)

The University of Kentucky Computing Center

Located in McVey Hall, the Computing Center has been providing computing services to the University of Kentucky community for 35 years.

Services

Help Desk

FACTS Center

MC FACTS Center (at the Health Science Learning Center)

Facilities

IBM 3090 600J running VM/ESA and MVS/ESA

HP 9000/800 G30 running HP-UX

Convex Exemplar

Convex Metasystem with Metrum Tape Robot

Prime 6550 running PRIMOS

Assorted Servers

The are also numerous public computer labs available around the campus. Additional computing information is available from the Gopher service.

Computing since 1959

The University of Kentucky Computing Center began in 1959 with an IBM 650. The first director was John Hamlin, followed in 1962 by Silvio Navarro. The IBM 650 was replaced by an IBM 1410 and augmented by an IBM 7040 installed in 1964. This was replaced in 1967 with an IBM System/360 model 50 which included 256 kilobytes of core memory and six disk drives with a total of 40 megabytes of storage. Martin Solomon became director in 1967. The model 50 was later upgraded to a model 65 and memory and disk space added.

The computing resources were greatly expanded in 1975 when an IBM System/370 model 165 was installed. This machine was about four times faster than the 360-65, had more than twice the memory and more and faster disks. The 370-165 ran VM/370 with most work being done in batch under OS/MVT running in a virtual machine. During the 1980s the IBM system was upgraded several times and Prime systems were added for student use.