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From: paul@osu-dbs.UUCP (Paul Placeway)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Scheduling and hardware
Message-ID: <589@osu-dbs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-May-84 00:17:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: osu-dbs.589
Posted: Fri May 11 00:17:02 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 5-May-84 01:04:03 EDT
Organization: Ohio State U., CIS Dept., Columbus
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Gees, I feel sorry for all you people who are wasting time hand-scheduling.
Here at Ohio State (I think that were the second-largest single campus in
the states), we fill out a schedule request about the 6th week in the
quarter, and get our approved schedule with our fee cards about the 10th
week.  No fuss, no muss.  I am an undergraduate and have been closed out of
a course only once at the beginning of my freshman year.  Yes, this
scheduling is computerized.

On the darker side of things, the available hardware for undergrads is
really bad.  Almost all courses are tought on an Amdhal 470 in batch (cards
and (fidjet with) widjet) or almost batch (next to Unix, Wylbur is
*nothing*).  The only reason I get to play with any reasonable computers is
because I got very lucky and got a job as an operator on this research
machine (this one).  Things are getting better, but when the Computer Center
wants to push an IBM 4341 (16M core, ~2 gig disk) rather than supporting the
CIS department DEC 2060 (3.5M core, ~500M disk) that is used 4 (yes four)
times as much, something is *VERY* wrong.  How nice it would be to be a
private college with mega-bucks (see and earlier article...) 8-).

*** the opinions above are my own and not those of my employer... ***

"I even like the chicken if		Paul W. Placeway
 the sauce is not too blue..."		The Ohio State University
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