# @trinityu on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B193xQdF7uR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20832994-trinityu-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/7e279bf0d2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-09-03T23:01:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Trinity University (@trinityu) — https://gondola.cc/trinityu

## Caption

Trinity was ahead of the curve when, in 1960, the mathematics department acquired a rebuilt Royal Precision Digital LGP-30 model at the discounted price of $18,000, compared to its $50,000 going rate. The size of an office desk, a 1960 Trinitonian article noted that “its relative compactness is one of its chief advantages.”⁣
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While it was mainly used by faculty and graduate students for research projects, the computer also allowed Trinity to offer courses in elementary and advanced computer programming, the first available at any college or university in San Antonio. It was particularly suited for the performance of long, complicated mathematical operations that would take hours, if not days, to work by hand. The computer was also used to type letters “informing high school seniors of educational opportunities on the Skyline Campus.⁣”
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#TrinityUniversity #Trinity150

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