PROJECT FIND (FORECASTING INSTITUTIONAL NEEDS FOR DARTMOUTH), 1972 - 1976 May Be Restricted

The collection contains the records of Dartmouth College Computing Services, including general subject files and those of Vice President James Poage, Director Thomas Kurtz, Director John Stewart McGeachies, Assistant Director Robert Roe Costello, Associate Director Robert Hargraves, Director of Technical Services William M.P. "Punch" Taylor, and Director William Y. Arms. In addition, the collection contains publications, material on FETCH licences, meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, slides, and conference material and VHS tapes. Of note is the material related to the creation of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, the first succesful large-scale time sharing operating system developed at Dartmouth College between 1963 and 1964 and the material related to the BASIC computer language, necessary to run the system.