Editing Michigan Terminal System (section)

==MTS Consortium==
MTS was developed, maintained, and used by a consortium of eight universities in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom:<ref name=MTSVol1/><ref name=WhyMTSSites>[http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/discussions/how-did-sites-learn-about-and-make-the-decision-to-use-mts "How did sites learn about and make the decision to use MTS?"], an item in the discussion section of the Michigan Terminal System Archive</ref>

*[[University of Michigan]] (U of M), 1967 to 1997,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/no-more-mts.html|title=Josh Simon's Work Information: MTS Retired|work=clock.org}}</ref> US
*[[University of British Columbia]] (UBC), 1968 to 1998, Canada
*NUMAC ([[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[University of Durham]], and [[Northumbria University|Newcastle Polytechnic]]),<ref name=NUMAC>[https://www.dur.ac.uk/cis/news/archive/issues/january2005/complete/ "How computers have changed since 1968"], ''ITS News'', Computing and Information Services, Durham University, 29 January 2005. Northumbrian Universities Multiple Access Computer (N.U.M.A.C.), a collaboration between of the universities of [[University of Durham|Durham]] (DUR), [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle upon Tyne]] (UNE) and [[Northumbria University|Newcastle Polytechnic]] that shared a S/360-67 at Newcastle starting in 1969</ref> 1969 to 1992, United Kingdom
*[[University of Alberta]] (UQV), 1971 to 1994,<ref name=UQVTimeline/> Canada
*[[Wayne State University]] (WSU), 1971 to 1998, US
*[[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] (RPI), 1976 to 1999, US
*[[Simon Fraser University]] (SFU), 1977 to 1992,<ref>{{cite journal |citeseerx= 10.1.1.56.2631 |title= Dropping the Mainframe Without Crushing the Users: Mainframe to Distributed UNIX in Nine Months |first1= Peter |last1= Van Epp |first2= Bill |last2= Baines |location= Simon Fraser University |publisher=LISA VI Conference (Long Beach, California) |date=October 19–23, 1992}}</ref> Canada
*[[University of Durham]] (NUMAC),<ref name=NUMAC/> 1982 to 1992,<ref>In 1982 [https://www.dur.ac.uk/cis/news/archive/issues/january2005/complete/ "How computers have changed since 1968"], ''ITS News'', Computing and Information Services, Durham University, 29 January 2005. NUMAC installed a separate machine running MTS at the University of Durham, prior to that both DUR and UNE shared a single MTS system running at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.</ref> United Kingdom

Several sites ran more than one MTS system: NUMAC ran two (first at Newcastle and later at Durham), Michigan ran three in the mid-1980s (UM for Maize, UB for Blue, and HG at Human Genetics), UBC ran three or four at different times (MTS-G, MTS-L, MTS-A, and MTS-I for general, library, administration, and instruction).

Each of the MTS sites made contributions to the development of MTS, sometimes by taking the lead in the design and implementation of a new feature and at other times by refining, enhancing, and critiquing work done elsewhere. Many MTS components are the work of multiple people at multiple sites.<ref>It is difficult to properly give credit for all the work that was done, however, to avoid giving too little credit and at the risk of not giving proper credit to everyone that made contributions, an attempt is made to note the sites where a major feature or enhancement was initially developed</ref>

In the early days collaboration between the MTS sites was accomplished through a combination of face-to-face site visits, phone calls, the exchange of documents and magnetic tapes by [[snail mail]], and informal get-togethers at [[SHARE (computing)|SHARE]] or other meetings. Later, e-mail, computer conferencing using [[CONFER (software)|CONFER]] and *Forum, network file transfer, and e-mail attachments supplemented and eventually largely replaced the earlier methods.

The members of the MTS Consortium produced a series of 82 ''MTS Newsletters'' between 1971 and 1982 to help coordinate MTS development.<ref name=MTSSubSeriesBentley>[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-0351;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-0351;subview=standard;focusrgn=C02;cc=bhlead;byte=24474999 Michigan Terminal System (MTS) subseries], Computing Center publications, 1965-1999, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan</ref>

[[File:MTSWorkshipVIIIMugs-1972.jpg|thumb|right|Mugs from MTS Workshop VIII, Ann Arbor, July 1982]]

Starting at UBC in 1974<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006055027;view=1up;seq=5 ''Proceedings - MTS Systems Workshop''], 1974, University of British Columbia, Canada</ref> the MTS Consortium held annual ''MTS Workshops'' at one of the member sites. The workshops were informal, but included papers submitted in advance and ''Proceedings'' published after-the-fact that included session summaries.<ref name=MTSSubSeries2Bentley>[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9551;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9551;subview=standard;focusrgn=C01;cc=bhlead;byte=24586272 MTS (Michigan Terminal System) 1970-1986 series], Computing Center (University of Michigan) records, 1952-1996 and 1959-1987, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan</ref> In the mid-1980s several ''Western Workshops'' were held with participation by a subset of the MTS sites (UBC, SFU, UQV, UM, and possibly RPI).

The annual workshops continued even after MTS development work began to taper off. Called simply the "community workshop", they continued until the mid-1990s to share expertise and common experiences in providing computing services, even though MTS was no longer the primary source for computing on their campuses and some had stopped running MTS entirely.

===MTS sites===
In addition to the eight MTS Consortium sites that were involved in its development, MTS was run at a number of other sites, including:<ref name=WhyMTSSites/>

*[[Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas]] (CBPF)<ref>CBPF is the [http://portal.cbpf.br/index.php?page=home&lang=en Brazilian Center for Physics Research] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410205344/http://portal.cbpf.br/index.php?page=home&lang=en |date=April 10, 2012}}</ref> within the [[Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico]] (CNPq),<ref>CNPq is the [http://memoria.cnpq.br/english/cnpq/index.htm National Council of Scientific and Technological Development] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716063256/http://memoria.cnpq.br/english/cnpq/index.htm |date=2013-07-16}}</ref> Brazil
*[[Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária]] (EMBRAPA),<ref>EMBRAPA is the [https://www.embrapa.br/en/home Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research]</ref> Brazil
*[[Hewlett-Packard]] (HP), US
*[[Michigan State University]] (MSU), US
*[[Goddard Space Flight Center]], [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), US

A copy of MTS was also sent to the [[University of Sarajevo]], Yugoslavia, though whether or not it was ever installed is not known.

[[INRIA]], the French national institute for research in computer science and control in Grenoble, France ran MTS on a trial basis, as did the [[University of Waterloo]] in Ontario, Canada, [[Southern Illinois University]], the [[Naval Postgraduate School]], [[Amdahl Corporation]], ST Systems for [[McGill University]] Hospitals, [[Stanford University]], and [[University of Illinois]] in the United States, and a few other sites.