ABSTRACT
In response to a number of needs, the University of California, a nine campus system, embarked on a fuil scale computing plan in 1977. The resulting University of California Computing Plan, 1977-1982 is serving as a guideline for campus computing. The nine campuses of the University of California have had the use of computers for a very long time, as the history of computers goes. The Standards Western Automatic Computer was operational at the University of California at Los Angeles in the early 1950s, and 1958 saw the establishment of the Western Data Processing Center, a joint venture of University of California at Los Angeles and IBM. The future of computer planning at the University of California is clear. System wide administration and campus representatives, through the experience gained in the first cycle of planning, better understand the future demands that will have to be met for computing services and have produced revised plans during 1978 and 1979.
