Administrative Records, 1971-1992
The Administrative Records series contains minutes, reports, and correspondence pertinent to the development and maintenance of MTS and other Computing Center and Information Technology Division initiatives from 1974 to 1992. Notable records in this series include:
- The minutes of monthly meetings of "Committee A," which addressed a wide range of issues of concern to the Computing Center staff.
- An extensive set of printouts from online forum sessions which provide transcripts of detailed, and often technical, discussions concerning various issues in MTS development.
- "The Future of MTS" includes committee minutes, survey results, and reports that were used to anticipate trends in technology and in the organizational requirements of ITD in the early 1990s.
- The Information Technology Architecture Committee addressed several critical issues including user access and authorization; core network architecture; email; file systems; connectivity among operating systems; and support for applications and peripherals.
- Records pertaining to organizational planning meetings from 1989 provide insight into the organizational transition from the Computing Center to the new ITD. And the L3 Project documents a proposal in 1985 to buy a supercomputer, the ELXSI 6400 Multiprocessor System.