1960's | 1970's | 1980's | 1990's | 2000's
Services
- 1966
- Remote Terminals
- 1968
- Interactive Services (TCP, FORTRAN, /RJE)
- 1969
- Remote Card Readers
- 1973
- Terminal Data Centers
- SMF
- Panvalet
- CICS
- 1974
- CIRCA
- Limited use accounts
- 1976
- SWAP
- 1978
- COM
- 1981
- MUSIC
- Economy TSO
- ATMS III
- Class 0
- 1982
- CMS
- 1985
- NERFOCUS region established
- 1986
- Class R
- TCP support withdrawn
- 1987
- CIRCA discontinues data entry service
- Weekend hours expanded
- CICS available 'til midnight M-F
- NERDC-managed offline disk storage discontinued
- VM Batch Facility
- CICS/CMS
- TPX installed
- On-line memo distribution
- 1988
- Class S
- GDDM-PCLKF
- Phoenix
- 1989
- Bulk Data Transfer service
- Class T, a new SYSOUT class
- LINDO/Mainframe
- TeX
- DB2
- Mainframe Wordperfect 4.2
- SUBSCRIBE command for /Update and
MEMO system
- CHRGLIST utility
- 1990
- 24 hour/7 day services offered
- Basic Access accounts replace Limited Use
- RCI available
- Rice Mail becomes default
- 1991
- Softswitch
- CRWTH (LEARN)
- AIX
- DOCSYS
- 1992
- DOCBATCH
- Graduate students given Basic Access
- 1993
- JES2 system no longer supports access/sequence
numbers for MVS batch jobs
- Signon to CICS with access/sequence numbers
no longer supported
- WordPerfect no longer supported
- 1994
- UFINFO Becomes WWW Server
- NERDC Publications Available in WWW
- MVS Security converted to RACF
- 1995
- NERSP replaced NERIX as the primary UNIX environment
- CGI and Image Maps supported on NERSP
- VM/CMS converted from minidisk to Shared File System
- IDSTATUS command available
- 1996
- Charlotte replaced Albert on NERVM
- Pine became default mail program on NERSP
- 1997
- GatorLink accounts available
- 1998
- Gartner computer-based training available on the web
- 1999
- DOCWEB replaces DOCSYS
- GatorLink e-mail system upgraded
- NETg computer training courses available
- 2000
- GatorLink accounts can now be accessed via the WWW at
https://webmail.ufl.edu
- Virtual Tour of NERDC
available online
- UF Hosts I2 Day
- 2001
- New Network Storage and Archive Management Service (NSAM)
- GatorLink mail boxes increased to 25M storage space
- 2002
- SMTP authentication available
- Virus scanning implemented on SMTP and NERSP mail servers
- CICS production regions acheived a record number of daily transactions (2.8 million)
- 2003
- Searchable CDs available instead of microfiche
- Gatormail becomes UF's production webmail service
- VoIP phones available
- PH directory server removed
- 2004
- GatorMail (webmail) upgraded
- GatorLink mailbox size increased to 50 Mb
- Spam-detection filtering system (Spam Assassin) enabled
- CNS Problem Tracking System launched
- Network services to the wall-plate available
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