Historical Timeline
| 1967 | various mainframes housed in Pine Hall, Encina Hall and SLAC for both academic and administrative use Wylbur/Orvyl Time Sharing System developed at Stanford |
| 1969 | SPIRES (Stanford Physics Information REtrieval System) begins at SLAC |
| 1970 | SPIRES (Stanford Public Information REtrieval System)/Ballots (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations using a Time-Sharing
System) begins on campus. OASIS (Online Administrative System for Information Services) Becomes the first campus adminstrative database used for student services |
| 1971 | Stanford Computation Center at Pine Hall taken over by Stanford anti-war protesters |
| 1972 | SPIRES (Stanford Public Information REtrieval System) joins Stanford Computation Center and becomes available to Stanford community |
| 1973 | SCIP (Stanford Center for Information Processing) formed to manage mainframes (earliest beginning of what will become ITSS) |
| 1975 | Mainframe front-ended by ASCII (non-IBM) terminals |
| 1977 | Mainframe placed on first campus network |
| 1979 | Mainframe moves to Forsythe Hall, public terminal area provided there |
| 1981 | EMS (Electronic Mail System) makes email available to staff IBM introduces its personal computer |
| 1982 | SPIRES chosen as database for administrative systems |
| 1983 | NSI (Network for Student Information) automates student records for staff use only SUFIN (Stanford University Financial Information Network) reporting system introduced Socrates (online biobliographic catalog) offers Stanford card catalog online Samson terminal emulation developed for connecting to mainframe from pc's |
| 1984 | PRISM developed to be common user interface for administrative applications Apple introduces Macintosh |
| 1986 | PRISM Forms Routing, Univids and PINS introduced SNAP (Stanford Network for Accounting and Purchasing) Purchasing automates purchasing transactions SUFIN Journals enables online expense transfers |
| 1987 | Prism personal reporting introduced |
| 1988 | CLASS (Cooperative for Linked Administrative Systems at Stanford) enables staff to do work using computers and online forms rather than paper
forms, ID mail, and telephones. TIPS (Team for Improving Productivity at Stanford) is formed to advise on business applications development |
| 1991 | SNAP Checks, SNAP Petty Cash introduced CHRIS (Consolidated Human Resources Information System) People enables online management of personnel information Eudora desktop email introduced First US website built at SLAC |
| 1992 | Axess offers self-service online information for students |
| 1993 | Networked/Distributed Computing Environment planning begins |
| 1995 | PCards (Purchasing cards) provide easy-to-use alternative for purchasing |
| 1996 | Web front-end improves interface to Axess |
| 1997 | CAMS (Capital Asset Management System) introduced |
| 1999 | Web Journals (CoreFin) enable web-based expense transfers |
| 2001 | Axess migrates to PeopleSoft Student Administration |
| 2002 | CHRIS replaced by PeopleSoft Human Resources system |
| 2003 | Financial applications migrate to Oracle Remaining applications and uses are replaced by new technologies |
| Dec. 15, 2003 | Mainframe is
retired |
"Broad brush" computing trends:
60's - growth of mainframe computing
70's - growth of minicomputers
80's - growth of microcomputers
90's - growth of network and web
00's - application maturity
Prepared by: Mainframe Retirement Team and Stanford IT staff, current and past
Last modified Friday, 03-Mar-2006 10:32:45 AM
