Introduction to this history.
A Case Study of the 1981-86
Microcomputerization of GSM
Clay Sprowl's 1950-1980
history
1980 | Jason Frand appointed director GSM Computing Services |
The Computing environment: key punch to terminals | |
1982 | First Hewlett-Packard Minicomputer Grant: HP3000/44 |
1983 | First microcomputer lab: HP125s |
1984 | 55 HP150 microcomputers installed; HP3000 upgraded; Lotus and dBase introduced; faculty offices wired to HP3000 |
1985 | Laptops provided to EMBA students: HP110s |
$2 million Management of Information Systems (MoIS) grants from IBM; IBM XT lab created (with Token Ring network); | |
1986 | Ashton-Tate Framework II adopted as software standard for instructional program |
100% GSM building wired with RS232 twisted pair to AT&T data switch installed linking faculty offices to both the IBM 3090 and HP3000 | |
1987 | 100% faculty have desktop computers |
1988 | GSM becomes UNIX environment with replacement of HP3000 by HP9000/850 |
Apple Macintosh II lab created (with Ethernet network) | |
100% staff have desktop computer | |
MS Excel adopted | |
1989 | AGSMail critical mass of users achieved |
1992 | Apple PowerBooks required of all EMBA and FEMBA students |
1995 | Moved to new fully-networked complex: ATM backbone |
First Anderson Web site posted | |
1996 | Laptop computers required of all full-time MBAs |
1998 | Formal integration of Computing Services with Management Library creating new organization: Anderson Computing and Information Services. |
1999 | 100 Gigabyte of online storage provided on network |
2001 | Upgraded network to gigabit backbone |
Disconnected modem pool; ISP access only | |
2002 | 1 Terabyte online storage capability |