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At UF they had been maintaining and operating the duplicate "backup" full IBM mainframe system for the Apollo program at Cape Canaveral, and offering degree pro
by fuzzfactor 5y ago
At UF they had been maintaining and operating the duplicate "backup" full IBM mainframe system for the Apollo program at Cape Canaveral, and offering degree programs for some time by then.
At Nova they had the big iron too even though there were only 11 students.
There's more to the story on that one.
- OldHand2018 5y agoGreat, then a BS in CS existed even earlier?
- fuzzfactor 5y agoYes, they were graduating and going to work for NASA, Wall Street, insurance companies, military & contractors, IRS and mainly things like that. Nobody small could afford a mainframe.