hardware and software of the mid 60's

SONODA Katsuhide (ksonoda@ilcs.hokudai.ac.jp)
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:30:02 +0900

I have a question just out of curiosity. What were the hardware and
software that were used in the earliest days of the Brown Corpus,
i.e. around 1965?

Prof. Kajita, who used the Brown Corpus extensively for his 1967
Princeton dissertation, once said to me that the computer center of
Princeton University complained to the linguistics department that he
used too much CPU time! Was it the famous IBM 360 and Fortran, or
still earlier model? I appreciate any info about the computational
environment of the mid 60's that corpus linguists enjoyed.

-- Sonoda Katsuhide
ILCS, Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan