Western Australian Regional Computing Centre (WARCC) was part of the

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, formed to provide computing services to the university, other universities in Western Australia, government departments, and to some private companies. It specialised in technical and scientific computing. It was formed on 1 January 1972, and ceased in 1991, when parts of it were spun off to become Winthrop Technology. Among the services it provided were time-shared computer processing, facilities management, software development, microcomputer rental and sales. It was

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's first customer for the

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. Its first Director was Dennis Moore (1972–1979), followed by Alex Reid (1979–1991). WARCC's Data Communications group, headed by Terry Gent, developed computer networking hardware and software. Using a combination of equipment from Digital Equipment Corporation and other vendors, and hardware and software that the group developed, it built a campus-wide network and then extended that to link the networks of the universities in Western Australia in the first heterogeneous packet switching network in Australia.

External links

WARCC History Page

UWA Computing History Page
* "Cyberhistory": MSc thesis by Keith Falloon, 200

* "Computing", ''Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia'', UWA Press, 2009, Gregory, J. & Gothard, J., editors, pp. 223–224 University of Western Australia {{computer-stub