CS Museum Catalog — items starting with M
MathLAN design document: "A CAMPUS CONNECTION STRATEGY FOR PROVIDING LOCAL AREA NETWORK ACCESS"
Mon, 2010-02-08 17:40 — walkerDonor: John David Stone
Document describing design rules for network connections between buildings on the Grinnell College campus and a rough diagram describing a bridged fibre link between an Ethernet segment in Darby, where the VAX 8600 minicomputer was located, and…
MathLAN design document: "Answers to LAN questions"
Mon, 2010-02-08 17:38 — walkerDonor: John David Stone
Collected answers to questions listed in "Questions for bidders," item 86. From Stone's "MathLAN" file.
Date: May 1, 1987
MathLAN design document: "Comparison of Sun and Digital Workstations for the Mathematics Department Local Area Network" and attached memo
Mon, 2010-02-08 17:53 — walkerDonor: John David Stone
This document, written by Henry Walker, lays out a detailed comparison of the Sun and DEC workstation offerings. The attached memo from Gene Herman indicates that only Sun and DEC are compared because IBM's bid had been ruled out by this point,…
MathLAN design document: "Management of computers in the new building" draft
Mon, 2010-02-08 14:40 — walkerDonor: John David Stone
Draft of a document describing the proposed division of labor between GCCS (ITS' predecessor) and the Math department for the management of the MathLAN. Much of this remains evident in the MathLAN's current operations. A revised version is…
MathLAN design document: "Outline for continuing discussions of the Math Department LAN"
Mon, 2010-02-08 14:42 — walkerDonor: John David Stone
What appears to be the initial attempt, on the part of Emily Moore, Mathematics and Statistics, to "place our massive array of detailed information and opinions into a structure that will facilitate our discussions and information gathering"…
MathLAN design document: "Outline of Current and Projected Computer Uses"
Mon, 2010-02-08 17:28 — walkerDonor: John David Stone
Document prepared by the Math faculty identifying in detail how both academic and general computing tasks were currently accomplished and how they might be better accomplished using the MathLAN as proposed. Three tables documenting computer use…
