Western Australian Regional Computing Centre
Among the services it provided were time-shared computer processing, facilities management, software development, microcomputer rental and sales. It was Digital Equipment Corporation's first customer for the PDP-6.
Its first Director was Dennis Moore (1972–1979), followed by Alex Reid (1979–1991).
WARCC's Data Communications group, headed by Terry Gent, developed computer networking hardware and software. Using a combination of equipment from Digital Equipment Corporation and other vendors, and hardware and software that the group developed, it built a campus-wide network and then extended that to link the networks of the universities in Western Australia in the first heterogeneous packet switching network in Australia.
External links
- WARCC History Page
- UWA Computing History Page
- "Cyberhistory": MSc thesis by Keith Falloon, 2001 [1]
- "Computing", Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWA Press, 2009, Gregory, J. & Gothard, J., editors, p223-224
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