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The Texas A&M Department
of Physics has a new computer
system that is the first of its kind
to be installed on a university
campus in the United States.
The new computer, a VAX
11/782, is needed because phy
sics students cannot do experi
ments easily on the University
computer, said Dr. Thomas
Meyer, assistant professor of
physics.
“We cannot use the Universi
ty computer to directly control
our experiments while this com
puter can,” Meyer said.
The $567,000 system is made
by Digital Equipment Corp. The
company furnished a $169,000
educational grant towards the
purchase and the rest of the
money was provided by Univer
sity funds.
“It will handle a wide variety
of problems from very simple
editing of memoranda to very
complex calculations,” said Dr.
Robert Tribble, head of the phy
sics department.
The VAX system has two cen
tral processing units that share a
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common memory bank. The
two CPUs make the computer
more powerful, Meyer said.
“Basically, it can do twice as
much work as a normal compu
ter,” Meyer said.
One of the CPUs handles im-
put and output by reading tapes
and discs and the other does cal
culations. This allows the com
puter to do calcualtions faster
when there are a lot of people
using it at one time, Meyer said.
Another advantage of the
VAX system is it can interact
with other labs around the coun
try, Tribble said.
“We can string a network be
tween two computers and send
information and programs back
and forth,” Tribble said.
“We expect to provide sub
stantially more computing time
for our students,” Tribble said.
“They won’t be restricted to
happy hour at the Data Proces
sing Center.”
Tribble said the physics de
partment hopes to have the
VAX system running at full
capacity by the end of the
semester.
Nominees battle;
Clements attacked
United Press International
Texas politicians, about to
enter the final month of cam
paigning before the Nov. 2
election, continued their ver
bal attacks on each other, with
the wife of one candidatejoin-
ing the barrage of barbs.
Rep. Jim Collins, who is
challenging incumbent
Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bent-
sen, Monday attacked his
opponent’s voting record on
national defense. Bentsen
claimed Collins offered con
tradictory explanations for
sponsoring legislation that
would have destroyed the So
cial Security program.
Meanwhile, Attorney Gen
eral Mark White’s wife, Linda
Gale White, accused Republi
can Gov. William Clements of
“telling lies” about her hus
band because he’s running be
hind in his re-election bid.
Collins, a Republican, said
his Democratic opponent has
not supported President
Reagan’s campaign to up
grade America’s weapons sys
tem. He also said Bentsen fre
quently opposed Reagan and
Texas’ other senator, John
Tower, a Republican, on de
fense matters.
In remarks prepared for
delivery at College Station
Monday night, Collins said
Bentsen voted for legislation
to cut spending for the Tri
dent submarine program, the
Safeguard anti-ballistic mis
sile and the Minuteman III
ballistic missile.
In a statement released in
Austin, Bentsen said Collins
never satisfactorily explained
a bill he sponsored that would
have allowed workers enrol
led in private pension plans to
withdraw from Social
Security.
“To date the explanations
offered by Mr. Collins for his
proposals which would wreck
our Social Security system are
not reassuring to Texans,” he
said.
“He goes into one Texas
city and denies ever doing
this, then he goes across the
state to another city and
admits doing it but says it was
and he won’t do it a§ain.'
Bentsen was endorsed
Monday by the Texas
Women’s Political Cauas
who said in a statement thathe
had been an effective member
of Congress.
Chairwoman Lena Guer
rero said Collins had never
passed a bill in 14 yearsasi
U.S. representative.
Mrs. White, who began
three-day campaign swing
through the Rio Grande Val
ley, said in Brownsville Mon
day that Clements has re
sorted to lying about her buy
band because he is worriedbt
will not he re-elected.
“Having to resorttotelling
lies and the type of campaign
ing he’s doing proves hes
worried and will say almoj
anything to get re-elected.'
Mrs. White said.
“Clements has now sho»n
that he was a poor governor,
think it’s just a proven fan
that he has big business ani
special interests at heart and
not the people.”
TI announces layoffs
for 2,600 employees
United Press International
DALLAS — Texas Instru
ments Inc. announced the
layoffs Tuesday of 2,600 em
ployees throughout the country.
The company cited weak
market conditions in several
business areas as the cause of the
layoffs.
A spokesman for Texas In
struments,which has a worl
dwide work force of 80,000
empoyees, would not say where
the layoffs will occur, but indi
cated 600jobs in Dallas would be
affected.
“It cuts pretty generally
across the company, but we’ve
got no breakdown on where or
when,” the spokesman said
Monday. “I would expect it will
begin very soon, but it has not
yet taken place, though it (the
layoff) did begin in the interna
tional area last week.”
The spokesman said the
layoffs are due to “the general
need to reduce overhead ex
penses and to cut costs in re
sponse to continued market
weakness in several business
March the firm cut its
force 3 percent, laying
approximately 2,700 peopled
cause of soft market condte
for semiconductors and dir:
buted computing.
The new layoffs come ai
time of soft market conditi# Texas
affecting the semiconducta
metals and controls, geophysio Jjeconon
and minicomputer areas oftb
company, the spokesman said
areas.
It is the second major staff re
duction for TI this year. In
The company’s 1981 earning
were • down 49 percent frc:
1980 and were the lowestil"
years.
IRS closes office in Bryan,
toll-free number still open
by Pam Barnes
Battalion Reporter
The Internal Revenue Service
has closed the Bryan taxpayer
service operation, leaving all
taxpayer assistance to be hand
led solely through the toll-free
telephone servics.
Taxpayers can get IRS forms
and publications and get their
questions anwered by calling 1-
800-492-4830, any day between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Mollye Mitchell of the Bryan
IRS office said using the toll-
free phone service is a more eco
nomical utilization of funds and
employees.
Another reason for the
phase-out was the reassignment
of several persons holding ma
jor positions in the Bryan office,
leaving their positions unfilled.
The office may be reopened
at tax filing time if the positions
are filled and funds are pro
vided, Austin IRS Public Affairs
Officer Sally Sassen said.
The office in
used only for coll
dit purposes.
Volunteer assistance may lx
provided during filing season!)'
local agencies and Beta
Psi, the Texas A&M account®
honor society, Mitchell said,
The IRS also hopes toexpait
its Volunteer Income
Assistance program in Bryl
according to a recent IRS new
release.
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