• The Computer Research Corporation, Model 102A (CRC 102A) was the first computer on the NPS campus; it was installed in 1953 in the Math Department, 2nd floor of Root Hall.  (In 1954, there were about 10 computers in government and business in the U.S.  NPS was one of the first universities to have a mainframe computer that hadn’t been built on campus.)
  

• Professor Elmo Stewart  was the first Director of the Computing Facility, 1959

1960s

• Control Data Corporation 1604 (CDC 1904 Serial #1) was the world’s first all solid-state computer, installed January 1960 by Seymour Cray himself.  It was the first computer to be fully transistorized, and was the fastest computer in the world at the time.
  

• Ed Ward was NPS’s first software programmer, 1960
  

• The CDC 160, installed in the early 1960s, was the first desk-sized, mini-computer.
  

• The IBM 360/67, the first general purpose mainframe ever assembled, and the first computer to have virtual storage, was installed in the Spanagel Hall Computer Facility, 1967.
  

• First remote access to computing resources was at 110bps via an Anderson Jacobsen Acoustic Coupler to the IBM 360/67, late 1960s.
  

• Ingersoll Hall, the first space especially designed for computer operations at NPS, was dedicated on 15 October 1968.
  

• Professor Doug Williams was named first Director of the W.R. Church Computer Center, 1969, after having been Director of the Computing Facility since 1962.

1970s

• The first Computer Center Newsletters were published; Roger Hilleary was the editor (1970-1985)
  

• The first link to ARPANET from NPS was made by Prof. Gary Poock, using a Terminal Access Controller (TAC)
  

• The first operating system for microcomputers, CP/M, was developed by Prof. Gary Kildall of the CS Department.  He used CP/CMS, running on the Computer Center’s IBM 360/67, as his model.
  

• The first Local Area Networks (LANs) were installed, piecemeal, around campus.

1980s

• Dr. Barry Frew was the first Chief Information Officer at the Naval Postgraduate School.
  

• BITNET supported the first universal e-mail on campus, 1986.  Every user had access.
  

• BOSUN, the Dudley Knox Library’s first online catalog, was operational in 1988.
  

• First campus backbone network (10Mb/sec Ethernet over fiber).

1990s

• The first classified "Warlab" was established on campus in 1991 by Hank Hankins and Ed Nath.
  

• Glasgow Hall was the first building on campus wired from the ground up for high-speed networking, 1992.
  

• "Scientific Visualization Lab" developed by Drs. Mike McCann and Matthew Koebbe, 1992.
  

• The first spam was received at NPS in 1994.
  

• Charles Peyton Taylor was the Webmaster of NPS's first official Home Page, 1994.
  

• First Web interface to BOSUN, 1995.
  

• First major viruses, Love Bug and Melissa, hit the campus e-mail servers, 1999.
  

• First fiber optic cable between buildings on campus was installed by IAA, 1999.  

2000+

• PYTHON, the first consolidated hardware, software and application inventory for both Administrative and Academic functions, was developed by students, 2000.
  

• First wireless network installed on the main campus, 2001.
  

• First ITACS Customer Survey, 2004.
  

• First use of nps.edu in e-mail address, 2004:  Prof. Xavier Maruyama.
  

• Unveiling of www.nps.edu NPS Home Page, 30 March 2004.
  

• Barracuda spam filter installed, 2005.  The Barracuda appliance blocks 14 million spam e-mails per year.
  

• First Webcast of an NPS graduation ceremony, 2005.
  

• High Performance Computing within ITACS was established with the hiring of Dr. Jeff Haferman as Manager, 2006.
  

• 100% wireless coverage on campus, 2007.