University of California CD-ROM Information System

History of tasks accomplished to date

6/90	First announcement of Pioneer DRM-600 drive.
8/90	LBNL ordered first DRM-600, first Young Minds driver, and first CDs.
12/90	LBNL drive #1 on line (parep2, disk1-6).

1/91	LBNL drive #2 on line (parep2, disk7-12).
5/91	LBNL drives #3-4 on line (parep2, disk13-24).

2/92	First contact with UCB GSSI (Govt & Soc Sci Info)
3/92	First meeting of LBNL, GSSI, UC DATA.
3/92	STF1A (from GSSI) on line.
3/92	First software download from Census bulletin board.
4/92	First UCB client (UCB Library systems office).
4/92	First LBNL newsletter article.
6/92	UC DATA (Data Arch & Tech Assistance) ordered first DRM-600s.
6/92	First public announcement, at Census CD-ROM Workshop, Berkeley
8/92	First client outside Berkeley (UC Davis).
8/92	First contact with UCOP (Univ Cal Office of Pres).
10/92	Katayama completed first version of PC menu system.
11/92	First client at UCB GSSI.

1/93	First NFS client outside California (Oak Ridge Natl Lab).
1/93	First DRM-604X on line.
2/93	FIrst use of PC menu system at GSSI.
4/93	First UC DATA drives on line.
6/93	First clients at UCB CED (College of Env Design) and UCB Econ Dept.
6/93	First version of CD-ROM checking program.
7/93	First MAC NFS client (Univ of Boston).
8/93	Began NFS logging at LBNL.
8/93	Parker completed DBUTIL routines.
9/93	First Tracer drivers installed - multiple SCSI ports on one Sun.
10/93	Demo at ICPSR (Interuniv Consortium Pol & Soc Research), Univ Mich.
12/93	First meeting with CED (Coll Env Design) and UCB Earth Sci Library.
12/93	First contact with Bob Hammond, Census Bureau.
12/93	Letter to John McCredie, UCB Info Sys & Technology.
12/93	CDs NFS-exported to world with unrestricted access.

2/94	First WWW documentation.
3/94	First meeting of UCB CD-ROM users, at UCB Library.
8/94	First meeting of LBNL and Census at LBNL.
9/94	Parker completed LOOKUP version 1.0.
9/94	First Census CD drives on line.
9/94	Began LOOKUP logging at LBNL.
10/94	Began LOOKUP logging at Census Bureau.
12/94	Purchased first DRM-602X drive.

3/95	First live demo by Census Bureau of WWW server, including LOOKUP.
3/95	Automatic updating of LOOKUP and NFS/FTP usage statistics in WWW.
3/95	Meeting of LBNL, UC Data, UCB Library, and Census Bureau at LBNL.
4/95	Census Bureau begins supporting development of LOOKUP.
4/95    Peer-reviewed publication: Communications ACM 38(4) pp.51-52 (1995).
4/95    Letter of endorsement from Director of Census Bureau.
4/95    New data server: North Carolina State University.
5/95	Parker completed LOOKUP version 1.1.
6/95	LOOKUP version 1.1.0d installed on all three WWW servers.
6/95	LOOKUP interfaced to TIGER Map Service (U.S. Gazetteer).
6/95	Citation by Glenn Davis, "Cool Site of the Day," 6/21/95.
6/95	Disk-based copy of Landview II data installed at Census Bureau.
6/95    Interface between LOOKUP and Tiger Mapping Service.
6/95    LOOKUP version 1.2: STF1D and STF3D (103rd Congressional Districts).
7/95    LOOKUP version 1.3: STF3B (ZIP codes).
7/95	Article in LBNL Currents (7/14/95) about Cool Site of the Day.
7/95	Citation by Michael Batty, "The Computable City," Melbourne, Australia.
8/95	Department of Energy (DOE) stops supporting CD-ROM activities at LBNL.
8/95	$25K from Census Bureau to LBNL for FY95 CD-ROM activities.
8/95	Census Bureau visit (Gregg, Stuber, Hammond) to LBNL (8/7/95-8/8/95).
9/95	New data server: Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA.
9/95	LBNL visit (Merrill and Holmes) to Census Bureau (9/18/95-9/20/95).
9/95	$72K from Census Bureau to LBNL for additional CD-ROM activities.
10/95	1 million LOOKUP pages have been accessed.
11/95	100,000 users have accessed LOOKUP.
11/95	Added data for 104th Congressional Districts.
11/95	Census Bureau closed 11/14/95-11/20/95 due to Federal budget impasse.
12/95	Census Bureau closed 12/18/95-1/7/96 due to Federal budget impasse.

1/96	Census Bureau closed 1/8/96-1/11/96 due to blizzard conditions.
1/96	LOOKUP awarded three star review by McKinley Magellan.
2/96	1990 STF 1C,3A,3B,3C disk files installed at Census Bureau.
2/96	LOOKUP and PC menu system modified for multiple copies of data files.
2/96	2 million LOOKUP pages have been accessed.
4/96	200,000 users have accessed LOOKUP.
5/96	New LOOKUP server at venus.census.gov (to replace www.census.gov).
5/96	New LOOKUP servers at indian.monterey.edu and library.monterey.edu.
5/96	New LOOKUP server at parep2.lbl.gov.
6/96    New data server: National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
9/96	(hibana,misty,bigsur).lbl.gov moved to UC Berkeley Library.