News Scrapbook 1984

'Talking Terminals' USD Installs High Tech PnJifes Linking Computer By PAULINE REPARD terminals.' SANDIEGODAILY 1'RA. VSCRIPT Wf WrilM The switchboard is now an in- formation tool, exp,amed Vince Pa T&T account executive. A narrow display screen acros the tup pnnts out the name of th per. son who 1s calling, or whose number has been dialed, give. the date and ttm and can act as a timer. A $1.3 million telephone system en as a maJor step into high t hnology was unveiled yesterday a tne Umversih:..of San Diego. The syi;tem, from AT&T fnfor- mation Systems, eventually will allow campus computers, as well as student and staff, to talk to one Available, but not yet ct1vated

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budget for manpower and equipment by so percent. for mcreasmg m~n- power by 20 percent and for help_m~ tablish th post of a:st tant c<:re tary for res rv affairs . s ex~ted, Philbin was nomt• nated by th White House Tuesday to 00 a memh r of the Federal fart• tim Commi. s1on. He bas been serv- ing a a con ultant ~o t~e comm1s- 1on, p ndmg hi nommalton and con- firmation by the S nate.

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acknowledged, th outdated. . "We fe I we are on th leading dge of having our needs met for the next seven to 10 year ," Boyce .d "This is the mo ·t up-to-date sa1 . . h system in use by any chool m t e country." _ Down the road, Boyce said, studenL with any brand of pcr- onal computer will be able to h~k ·nto the telephone hn sa~d pu(l 1 ?· formation from th umvers1ty s computers. · In six to nine months, students will be domg all their homework from their dorm rooms, he 8 YSlem wi!

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Th voice terminals also Come aramed by the user, perhaps forin_g often- called numbers for one-touch dialing. the university received phone services for its 1.3 million. Students living on campus hav free access to an intercom system and university. bought telephones in the dorms. Boyce said 600 stu ents now have the phones, but by the end of the year th number hould rise to 1,300. Rather than arranging their own phone hook,up , students can use the on provid d to them and pay local and long-distance bills to the college Additionally, AT&( has wired (Continued on P~ 4A) with 34 button to be pro Besid the lephone ,

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!JI/,,•• '• o r ----- USD Installs High-Tech AT & T_5ystem ' z.S' · By BILL RITTER, Times Staff Writer The University of San Diego bas installed the f1rsrpjjase of a high-technology, on-camp1J3 cam- murucat.tons system that will even- tually link students. faculty, staff and administrators through a com- puter with audio, digital and video capabilities. The $1.3 million initial phase, purchased from AT&T Infonnation Systems, is the first uruversity application west of the Misaissippj of AT&T's System 85, accordlng to Jack Boyce, USD vice President for financial affairs. Over the next IO-years, USO will. add to the system, at an eventual cost of between $2.5 million and S5 million. according to Vince Pate, an AT&T representative. Several businesses, including San Diego-based SDG&E and Gen- eral Dynamics, have purchased similar state-of-the-art AT&T systems. Several maJQr universities have installed the AT&T systems this year, said Pate. By December, 15 new commum- cations ternuna1s will be installed on the canfpus, which is located on Alcala Park overlooking Misaion Bay. Each 34-button ternunaJ of. fers single-button conference call- ing, electronic message retnevaJ and a digital screen that display • the name of a caller or a llle8saBe. In addition, each terminal can be plugged into a personal,_ desk-top ' computer. Maeb More to Come R F u lf?/1.A ,..

AT & T Presents Communications By Tim Muornian A new communications system wa, an- nounced on September 13 at an AT&TIUSD press conference 111 01111

students and three new huildmgs." On campus, the ,yscem has been, acu,rd111g 10 Boyce, "succL'ssfully cut over ... ·11 wa, no ea.,y task." USO\ phone system apparl'nt- ly parnllds that of any rnrpor:irion. The system is dl's1gned to anommodat • alls through V

Hall, and was heralded in the press release packet as "A high tech business sy,tem that projects USO into the vanguard of the Information Age." The 1.3 million dollar System 85 hy AT&T is part o( a ten-year plan to moder- nize the un1ver. ity through "networking," a catch-all computer speak term. Ir wil I allow for intercommunication among departments, nnd expandL·d pho11e si•rv1ce capabilities. The system is d11·ided into rhl• categories of vo1<:e, office anJ building manngement and remote ma1111enance. Jack BoyLe, Vice President for financial affairs at USO, discussed the need in term, o( growth. "We've had tremendous expan- sion in the past year, a thousand more

The ew telephon system fj]Iows single-bu ton conference calling, electronic messa~e r tneval and dis- play of Jhe name of callers on a screen on telephone n truments. Possible adJ1tion~ include cost- trackmg of call mote monitoring of the system for problems, supervi- sion of energy-It ing d vices in cam- pus buildings, ocument-storage and -retrieval and n lectrop1c directo- ry.

Eventually, the system will in- corporate call cost-tracking, re- l mote monitoring and maintenance of the system, campuswide energy and security monitoring, comput- enzed integration of all voice and data communications. office auto- mation and electronic mail. USD's 1.400 dormitory student& will be able to plug into the new system, initially by utilizing the on-campus phone system and equipment from the university and later by tappmg into the system's central computer. Students could use their own in-dorm personal computers to ob- tain access to instructional materi- al, administrative functions and many other sernces, said Boyce, The costs to the student, for the phones will be "competitive" Witll out;,,de rates, according to Boyce.

of thl' nineteen ·1gh11c,. There II a, ,lll l'l11 - phas1s I ade o( the .sy,tl'm 's I) l1l'lessir1·, 2) value to ll'arn111g l'nhann•m<'nt and that l) USD IS thl' firsr l,llllpus "\\'est o( lhL Mississippi" to install "th<' mo,1 sophistirntcd svstc'm'' in the u mmun1,a- rions industrv. USO student., 11 ill he party to the nc\\' system when "frc<' phone•, arc in,called in every campus roorn, 11 <1u e."sing sruJent, to on-campus L alls. Boyce s,11d the un11 l'rsitv ll'ould "make .i littll' mon<'v" from thl' local and long d1sr,;n«• call,, ll'h1ch ll'ould he• hilll'd h\ an 111dq,<'ndc•nt :ig<:nn.

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