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.
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