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| | CSD Annual Report and Planning Document 99-2000 |
 | | UNB's first IBM computer, a 1620 Model II acquired in 1964, was followed by an exclusive succession of IBM System /360, /370 and /390 architecture processors, which together spanned the 36-year period, 1964 to 2000. |
 | | Wasson in 1964, UNB raised a significant part of the financing for its first IBM mainframe by negotiating a "computing partnership" with NBEPC which contributed 40% of the cost of the 1620 in return for prepaid service at privileged processing rates over the life of the machine. |
 | | Strengths of the IBM mainframe were (and still are): highly reliable hardware and operating systems, top-notch security, multiple high-speed channels, convenient job scheduling, processing and output control, excellent timesharing vs batch cpu resource control, automated DASD management of myriads of datasets comprising huge amounts of storage; and, the versatility of automated operations. |
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