VLA Monthly Progress Report, January 1975 Photo

In December 1974, VLA construction was underway at the site: steel erection for the Antenna Assembly Building, spiking and preliminary alignment of track, and transporter weldments on location awaiting assembly. Meanwhile back in Charlottesville, the VLA computer group was working in rented office space in the Gallery Mall building on Ivy Rd., west of the Edgemont Rd. building and east of the current NTC building. During December, the major portion of the DEC-1060-E asynchronous computer was delivered there, installed, and made operational. According to the VLA Monthly Progress Report, "The software development group's activities have mostly been concerned with learning to use and operate the new system."

Records of the NRAO

Still Image

1975-01

NRAO/AUI/NSF

VLA Monthly Progress Reports

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New Mexico Operations Series

Very Large Array (VLA) Unit

VLA Monthly Reports Subunit

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