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Anecdotes
July-September 2006 (vol. 28 no. 3)
pp. 76-80
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Jesse T. Quatse, "Anecdotes," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 76-80, July-September, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2006.49,
author = {Jesse T. Quatse},
title = {Anecdotes},
journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
volume = {28},
number = {3},
issn = {1058-6180},
year = {2006},
pages = {76-80},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2006.49},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Jesse T. Quatse, Pay By Touch
Carnegie Mellon University engaged in a major hardware design project serendipitously as an important step toward the founding of the Department of Computer Science. Alan Perlis, the first head of the department, needed a research facility adequate for attracting the faculty needed to attract the funding needed to build the research facility. He resolved the circular dilemma by engaging a graduate student to develop the hardware on the university computer site during the three years preceding the Center of Excellence ARPA grant to found the department. The system served its intended purpose for the founding of the department and for the following first years of its existence. This unusual story is told by that former graduate student.

1. The merger of Carnegie Institute of Technology with Mellon Institute, and the name change to Carnegie-Mellon University, took place in 1967. For simplicity, I use CMU interchangeably with CIT in this account, regardless of the date.
2. R. Keir and J. Quatse, Parallel Digital Adder System US Patent 3,081,032, Patent and Trademark Office, 1963.
3. J.T. Quatse, Design of the G-21 Multi-Processing System, ENGR&SCI 510.7808 C28R 65-5, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1965.
4. J.T. Quatse, "STROBES-Shared Time Repair of Big Electronic Systems," Proc. 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conf. (FJCC 27), AFIPS Press, 1965, pp. 1065–1171.
5. J.T. Quatse, A Visual Display System Suitable for Time-Shared Use, ENGR&SCI 510.7808 C28R 66-13, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1965.
6. A.H. Bond, J. Rightnour, and L. Steven Coles, "An Interactive Graphical Display Monitor in a Batch-Processing Environment with Remote Entry," Comm. ACM, vol. 12, no. 11, 1969, pp. 595–607.
7. J. Quatse, Portable Computer Terminal, US Patent 3,577,201, Patent and Trademark Office, 1971.
8. J. Quatse, Portable Computer Terminal Using Digital Code Over Conventional Telephone Channel, US Patent 3,505,474, Patent and Trademark Office, 1970.
9. J. Quatse, Automatic Telephone Answering Mechanism, US Patent 3,555,189, Patent and Trademark Office, 1971.

Index Terms:
CMU, computer science department, graphic display, multiprocessing, shared memory, RACE file, portable computer terminal, acoustic modem, remote batch, system design
Citation:
Jesse T. Quatse, "Anecdotes," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 76-80, July-Sept. 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.49
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