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Demand grows for computer access By Randy MacDonald Of ttx> Emerald Students don't have to be computer science majors to gain access to com puters on campus. Computer time is available to all students at several campus and off-campus locations. Although a wide variety of microcom puters are available on campus for stu dent use, demand for the machines is in creasing, thus the amount of “open ac cess” time available to students is decreasing, said Curtis Lind, director of the Continuation Center's microcomputer department. Demand for the units is becoming a pro blem now that microcomputers are available to students for extra-curricular purposes, Lind said. The computers are primarily for instructional use, he said. For $25. students can spend 60 hours of time on the more than 100 microcom puters owned and operated by the Con tinuation Center and have access to a variety of programs including Wordstar (a word-processor program) and Lotus 1-2-3 {an accounting program). This year is the first year a fee has been charged. ■ • The center's goal is to become self supporting. Lind said. The microcom puters were initially made available free of charge to assess student interest in the program. Now that it is obvious students are interested, the fee is necessary to make the program economically feasible, he said. Lind said more than 900 students enroll in computer-use courses each term. The Continuation Center tries to assure they will have enough access to the computers for their homework by staying open nights and weekends. Lind said he is anxious for the EMU to open its microcomputer room because he hopes it will relieve some of the demand for the Continuation Center’s computers. The EMU's computer room will be run by the Recreation Center, said Roy Singer, a Recreation Center employee. The room is still under construction, and will pro bably be open this summer, he said. The new computer room will make at least 30 computers available to students, said Dexter Simmons, director of the Recreation Center. The Continuation Center has microcomputer labs in Condon School, Room 210 Lawrence Hall, and shares facilities with the College of Business Ad ministration fCBA) on the third floor of Gilbert hall. Both CBA students and Continuation Center students may use the Gilbert facilities, but the $25 fee is required unless a student is enrolled in a computer course, said Dave Fergus, personnel director at the Gilbert computer facility. The Gilbert facility has four labs: an Apple Macintosh lab. an IBM PC lab. an HP150 lab, and a “mainframe'' lab that has terminals connected to the DEC 1090 and IBM 4240 mainframe computers in the Computing Center;, Most of the CBA's computers were . donated by companies like Apple and Hewlett-Packard, Fergus said. The IBM PC’s in the Gilbert facility an; owned by the Continuation Center. ' Word processors like Wordstar unable students to write and adit essays and other work. Fergus said Programs like l.ntus 1-2-3 enable students to do a com pleto spreadsheet analysis very rapidly, he said. Fergus is also very proud of the high quality graphics equipment in the HP lab. He said many architecture and business students use the equipment, which can print in four colors and reproduce a number of charts and graphs. “It is becoming essential that a Univer sity have a good computer system." Fergus said. “A lot of students are re quired to possess strong computer skills when entering the job market. That skill may just be what pushes them over the edge in employer desirability." Access to the DEC 1090 and the IBM 4240 Mainframe computers of the Univer sity Computer Center is available to all students for a $75 deposit, said Paula Reed, director of accounting for the center. • Twenty computer terminals are open for student use in Room 202 in the Com puter Center except when classes are scheduled in the room. Terminals are also, located in the dorms and in the Amazon and Westmoreland housing complexes. Computers .are also •' available off campus. kinko's copies rents computer time on IBM PC's, for $5 an hour.'w-ith a $3 .minimum charge. It now has a* laser printer available that can be used with the machines, at 20 cents a page. . Bit by Bit. another off-campus.com pany. will rent microcomputers by the month. Apple Macintosh (512k) com puters rent for $285 a month, and IBM PC s (25iik) an; $17.5 a month The store will rent a Brother letter-quulity printer for $50 a month, and an Epson kX80 daisywheel printer for $30 a month. aL Continued from Page 11 May 13: Klnmuth Kails School District no. 1 and Union High School District no. 2 (educ/spec educ positions). May 13-14: Peace Corps recruiting office (volunteer): Kubensteins (sales mktg). May 14: Northwest Paper Fibers, Weyerhauser div. (plant manager). May 14-15: IJ.S. Navy recruiting district (officers pro g ra ma/nuclear power programs). May 15: Eagle Point School District no. 9 (lang arts/sci/math 9-12). . " Ma^ 18: (eld-Wen, Inc (production mgmt trainee). Sign-up space is still available for the following recruiters: May 8: Federal Deposit ln surance Corp (bank examiner trainee); group meeting: only.. 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