DEC and Cincom Grants - 1984

Digital and Cincom Grants

Dr. James Perotti, computer systems in business, smiles as he examines a shipment of Digital computer equipment. Perotti wrote the grants for both Digital and Cincom which the College received this year.

A matching grant agreement with Digital Equipment Corporation, totaling $630,000, vastly expanded the College's computer resources. The College received a VAX 11/780 small mainframe computer, 40 Rainbow 100 microcomputers, 5 Rainbow 100 + microcomputers, 6 DECmate II microcomputers, and DEC software, including the extended ALL-IN-1 automated office information system.

The 40 Rainbow 100s, housed in the College's second computer instructional laboratory, are networked to the VAX and function both as stand alone units and as terminals to the VAX. They are dedicated exclusively for student and instructional use.

The College also purchased 30 Rainbow 100s at a substantial discount for faculty use. Faculty computers and those in administrative offices are networked together and to the VAX permitting use of DEC's ALL-IN-1 office automation features, ranging from electronic mail and calender management to word processing.

Digital capped the grant with the gift of a DECtalk computer, a text-to-speech system which enables computers to talk.

Cincom Systems also gave the College its state-of-the-art relational database system, ULTRA, for use on the VAX. Valued at $140,000, it will be used in teaching the two new data base courses in the Computer Systems in Business major.

Dr. James Perotti, computer systems in business, wrote the grant requests to both Digital and Cincom. The College is indebted to him for his efforts and accomplishments. Robert Hughes, vice president and group manager for Digital Equipment Corporation's Businesss and Office Systems Marketing, assisted Perotti with designing the Digital grant.

"The combination of DEC computers and software with Cincom's ULTRA software gives CBA students one of the most advanced business computer facilities in the region," Dean Stinson observes. With the opening of the Rainbow lab, the College now has 60 microcomputers in Copeland Hall available 80 hours a week to students.

A major capital gifts campaign to match Digital's $300,000 grant will begin in September.


Ohio University President Charles J. Ping meets DECtalk at Digital's Merrimack, N.H., offices. Mary Ann Fitzhugh, of Digital, demonstrates DECtalk for Ping and Digital executives [from left] Robert Trocchi, product group manager of educahon computer systems; Cecil Dye, Ohio Valley District manager; and Robert Hughes, vice president and group manager for office systems marketing.