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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1987)
Computer Lounge offers variety of hardware, software By Sieve Hoenisch Of lh# I nter aid The Computer Lounge. which is located in the basment of EMU, offers a variety of computer-oriented services ranging from passes for com puter use to desktop publishing, and is available to University students, faculty and staff. The lounge provides the user with a personal computer and accessibility to different types of software for word processing, data processing, graphics design, computer languages, and even games. Computer lab assistants are on hand to assist unfamiliar users with any pro blems they may encounter. As an added benefit. the lounge periodically holds Introductory sessions to familiarize users with computers and software. The lounge has a variety of computers available including 2H Mac intosh-f’luses. 12 IBM Compatible Kaypms, 2 IBM compatible Leading Edges, 4 sophisticated Apple 2es, a Vac trix graphic computer, plus 4 terminals for the campus infor mation exchange. In total, the lounge has 47 computer ter minals available for use To match the 47 individual pieces of computer hardware, the lounge has over 45 different software programs ranging from word processing and graphics to languages and games For business students, the lounge is stocked with spread sheets and integrated packages for creating budgets, business graphics, and bar charts. Forex ample. the software lotus 1.2.3 is available for use with the IBM cnmpatable hay pro computers Also available for use with the K ay pro is Symphony. Framework and ThmkTank Spreadsheets for the Macintosh include Marl’roject, Multiplan and |azz For the Apple 2e. a program called Excel is in stix k l Inder the label data base, the lounge carries D-Base 3 ami Microsoft Word Suc.h pro grams can be used for creating business documents. The lounge has a diverse stock of word processing soft ware for use with the IBM com putable computers including Word Perfect. Wort! Star, and Microsoft Word With the above software easily accessible from the system's hard disk, the Kaypro computers offer the ultimate word processing experience. For use with the Macintosh computers, MacWrite is the primary word processing pro gram Backing it up is the MacSpell-Plus program which provides a way to check and correct spelling errors. Also available for word processing is the Macl.ighting program There is a vast array of graphics programs available for the Mat. including Mat Draw. MacPaint, and MacDraft Graphics software such as Daz zle Draw and Koala Pad Painter is also on hand for the Apple 2e computers. The Macintosh personal com puter coupled with the lounge's SELF-SERVICE PHOTOCOPY PRINT AMERICA 539 344LE. 13th 485-1940 FEPR Y yi i SACRED HEAR? , HOSPITAL I3TH AVENUE 2 C tn c* < u in o ce < ALDER ST INCAID ST. NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN COLLEGE C i. k lUe Thank Ifea (at ym Sw(i|MWi #» I PR'Im 539 E. 13th 485-1940 COUPON SPECIAL 100 COPIES 8 1/2” x 11" white Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. two Apple Lazerwriter-Plus printers, which are located in the publishing room, provide an ideal combination for what is commonly referred to as desktop publishing, according to Roy Singer, manager of the Computer lounge. Using a Macintosh compatible program called Page Maker, it is possible to design and produce a newslet ter or even an entire newspaper. Page Maker enables one to com bine documents from other Mac programs such as MacWrite and NlacDraw, thereby creating a combination of essays and graphics in layout form. After using Page Maker, one needs only go to the printers with text in hand to publish the work "After a few hours of prac tice. Page Maker is an easy pro gram to use to publish letters, advertisements, and newspapers,” according to Dave Bickford, a student manager at the lounge. The Computer Lounge offers publishing services including typesetting for papers with the lazer printer, plotter or color-jet printing, and graphic design for flyers and posters I-azer printing on either the Macintosh-compatible Apple Lazerwriter-Plus or the Hewlett Packard 1 j»zer |et. which is used in conjunction with the Kaypros. costs 25 cents per page. A lazer printing pass is obtainable for $5 and is good for 25 pages, thus decreasing the cost of printing to 20 cents a page. "At a low cost, you can get typeset quality documents that are professional in ap pearance” by using the lazer printers, Bickford said. In addition to the four lazer printers, the lounge also has an IBM Color Jetprinter for prin ting Lotus graphs and a Apple Thunderscan printer for transposing a printed image in to a Macpaint document. After using Thunderscan to convert a picture into MacPaint image, one can then print the image on the lazer printer. The Thunderscan is expedient par ticularly for converting pic tures or images into a medium compatable with the Page Maker program for creating multi-media documents. Prices at the Computer lounge vary depending on the time period desired by the user. The hourly rate for University students and faculty is Si.80. But money can be saved if the user purchases a computer term pass at $25 for 100 hours of computer usage, bringing the rate down to 25 cents an hour. Savings can also be incurred by purchasiung a mini pass for $10 that is good for 10 hours of useage. A semester pass good for 130 hours of use is also available for $32.50 Use of the campus informa tion exhange (CIE). however, is free of charge for University students and faculty. The CIE is an intra-campus computer con ferencing system open to members of the University, in cluding faculty, students and alumni. 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