Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

According to University of Sydney Calendar 1978 (p. 434), "The University Computing Centre, created in 1974 and located between Boundary Lane and Abercrombie Street, Chippendale, provides substantial computing services between 8.30 am and 9.00 pm, Monday to Friday. for the University and outside bodies. The mainframe consists of a Control Data CYBER 72 running the KRONOS system. with BATCH and time-sharing capability linking 128 remote terminals. Peripheral devices include magnetic discs with a
storage capacity of approximately 10/9 characters, six magnetic tape units, and facilities for graph plotting and optical character reading".

The Centre was renamed "University Computing Service" in 1987 (see University of Sydney Calendar 1988, p. 434).

In 1992, the Service was called "Information Services" and sat within the Office of the Registrar and Deputy Principal (see University of Sydney Calendar 1992 Vol 1, p. 90).