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Vol Trivia: In 1958, the Electrical Engineering department rented a LGP-30, which was the first, what on campus?

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Computer. In 1958, Dr. Paul Cromwell, head of the Electrical Engineering Department, rented a Librascope General Purpose 30-bit computer (LGP 30).  It was the institution’s first real digital computer and was restricted to use by Electrical Engineering.  It took almost a second to multiply two numbers. 

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