CAPITAL TIMES, August 26, 1991
Upgraded
John Rudy
Capital Times Staff
Penn State Harrisburg's PC lab,
located in Olmsted W 304, was treated to
a major equipment upgrade over the
summer and was officially opened at 3
p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
Taking part in the ribbon-cutting
ceremony were Ernest Dishner, associate
provost and dean of the faculty; Eton
Churchill, assistant professor of
humanities and communications and
chairman of the computer facilities
committee; and Lakshmana "Vis"
Viswanath, director of the Office of
Computer and Information Systems,
formerly known as the Computer
Center.
Over 40 students, staff and faculty
members attended the opening. Intro
ductory demonstrations were held in the
lab every half-hour throughout the
afternoon.
The refitting replaced the lab's aging
IBM PC ATs with 35 high-speed, high
capacity computers acquired from Swan
Technologies of State College, Pa. For
you computer junkies, each Swan is
equipped with a 386SX microprocessor,
4MB of main memory, a 50MB hard
disk and a high-resolution super-VGA
monitor. All are equipped with 3-1/2"
high-density drives and five of the
machines have 5-1/4" high-densily drives
as well.
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PC lab features new computers
"Vis" Viswanath explains operation of new Swan computers during the PC lab's grand opening
The new machines are loaded with the
latest software, such as DOS 5.0,
Windows 3.0, Grammatik and Inter
mission, as well aspreviously available!
C O- R P S
software like Word Perfect, dBASE and
Lotus 1-2-3. Access to Penn State's Uni
versity Park mainframe computer will be
available in the PC lab later this week, j
Obtaining a logon code name for the
new lab is as easy as filling out a single
form;" "We're very flexible," Viswanath
said. "Anyone who asks for one will
usually, get one."
Viswanath was hired June 1 to fill
the Office of Computer and Information
System's director position. Viswanath
served as director of academic com
puting at the State University of New
York at Cortland and holds Master's
degrees in meteorology from the South
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Viswanath explained that he is
basically responsible for the lab's
equipment installation.
"I don't want to take all the credit for
what happened here," Viswanath said.
"The computer facilities committee said
this lab needed upgrading. It was a
combined effort of many people: the
committee, faculty members, adminis
trators and many others. My staff did an
excellent job putting that lab together in
See Computers, page 5
Photo by John Rudy