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Volume LXIX, No. 113 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 23, 1979 IBM bad world toi COLUMBIA (AP) ? A computer expert at USC too trip around the world paid for by International Busin Machines, IBM, after agreeing to buy a computer from firm, officials said Wednesday. The trip by Jack M. 'Cooper, USC vice president computing services, ana ms wiie nas oeen mvesngaiec the State Law Enforcement Division, according to M Dillard, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office. THE DIVISION'S report has been turned over to si Deputy Attorney General Frank Sloan, who said his of is studying the report and will make a recommendatio Attnrnpv flonprnl Hanip] R MpT Cooper's trip became controversial after anol computer firm, Amdahl, of Sunnyvale, Calif., complai the contract was given to IBM even though Amdahl i Renovatic RH 3rd-floo projects nea completion By Gail Crouch Gamecock Staff Writer A meeting room, currently under construction on fl 11 *1 T T-- ? 5 a ? f ? - rw t ?? ? * rvussen nouse university union, itMUU, win neip re booking of RHUU ballroom events and provide space foi according to Tom Otts, RH director. "The meeting room would alleviate a burden that ballroom," Otts said. "The frequent use of the ballr difficulty with its maintenance." RENOVATIONS to the room will include an acou partition with two doorways to make the area useful to t\ same time, Otts said. Otts said the room will serve as a "large conference phasis on banquet and luncheon needs." A small servi included in the renovations, Otts said. Otts said an interior decorator has been hired to hel] th*? nrmntinu mnm InnlnHnH in ronm fnrnichinffc ar?o f?nr>l cost around $5,000, he said. Also under construction on the third floor are new of FM. About $6,000 in new equipment will be added to th including new furniture and broadcast equipment, a< Clemmensen, general manager of Student Media. I thir be made around spring break," Clemmensen said. THE MEETING room and the new WUSC-FM of renovated at a cost of around $12 per square foot, ac Turbeville, assistant vice president for Physical Facilil Planning. The two areas involve 5,242 square feet of s| said. A music listening room is also in the planning for thi: according to Otts. It would be constructed in the sp WUSC-FM and the old GAMECOCK newspaper offices, l a * ~ ? i A. . i iiu room wouiu noube six cassuiie macmues, iwo iu to-reel tape recorder and two tuners, Otts said. It wo and include a direct hookup with WUSC-FM, he said. ACCORDING to Otts, the music room would serve I "It will be a soundproofed quiet room, a reading room a with an art gallery approach." Otts said the meeting room and WUSC-FM offices 4 plete within a few weeks." All work on planned renov floor RHUU has to be completed and paid for by June 3C fiscal year), he said. With the renovations, "We'll be able to vastly impro House University Union can provide," Otts said. "The o will lack (when renovations are complete) will be an center," he added. USC compu ET? ^ UU511 l^lAI U/JC, 11" claims trip 'i k a mitted a bid that was $877,500 less than IBM's bid of $3.4 less million. the Cooper declined to comment on the matter, but < university spokesman, Chip Gray, emphasized the trip wai for not for pleasure. I by "The whole time he was making presentations," Gra: ark said. The trip included presentations at the universities o London, Newcastle, Zurich, Lieden and at Tamkanj College in Taiwan. The trip cost IBM $5,800. tate fice GRAY SAID the university signed a letter of intent to buj n to the computer, but no contract was signed. IBM offered to pay for the trip after learning that Coopei to?1" had received an invitation to present a paper in Taiwan bu ?ed lacked the funds in his office budget to pay for it. sub- The firm asked that Cooper include the European point me over r 100-175 people, 8 9 H exists with the IS If 9 oom is causing I stically treated p ,vo groups at the |h ' room, with em- faSHBSB? B a ^ ng room will be BgBj?gB|^Y \ ra || <*|g| p with design of ?f 11 tains, which will fices for WUSC- g p le radio station, |HBhbh||h^Q^Jj Jf :cording to Jon |^89BGS5sL* lk the move will \ fices are being - - |k | I to w.s. p lies and Campus 1 |: aace, Turbeville - r?"e> *=&? ; _z | M rd floor, RHUU, T:~7_- 1--^ 1 nil J ace vacated by , ^^J|: rntables, a reel- ~ ^ g Hfe iuld be carpeted Bplllil IIS?! EMM hree functions: | #? . . flgl ? V" U ??ig ?gjg nd a soft lounge ' ..?a J|jWSM " 111,*-V 'should be comations for third > (the end of this i fi || ??? Wi0^m^?mSm ve what Russell *.. |SpM i ' Sill nly thing KHUU : j?gf IHH HSKISSI arts and crafts _ ter expert, wife Taiwan; official lot for pleasure' i on the trip, and Cooper himself arranged a stopover in Hawaii. The State, of Columbia, reported Wednesday that the j university, which had been using an IBM computer but was s in the market for a larger model, balked at buying the Amdahl computer after Amdahl failed to run a benchmark / ? a series of computer programs ? in 150 minutes. Amf dahl's computer took 151.9 minutes to run the programs. j THE NEWSPAPER said the firm complained that additional material had been added to the benchmark at the / last minute without prior notice. Gray said the company was given "six opportunities to run the benchmark on the occasions." He said the Amdahl r computer failed the tests each time they were given, t A f ter Amdahl complained, the university requested that a third person be brought in to arbitrate the dispute, but s Amdahl rejected the request, Gray said. "^^ESII ffl^l:^aMBiBBr I jj K^jL j m '^FmP^- Jt\ s :;' ra^K. B ^Hr . f ; ^jjflfr,.. Safl HBr$| p?MMB J SosJI BBPfeaW I gpag M BBRfe aalf I Zjri;1;.-^/1'-; -"r-'-;I.- - '." : ^D| ':"' ''.' .^'xvv I