From: utzoo!decvax!cca!schoff.MINET-FRKEM@BRL@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: re:computer requirements
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2806
Posted: Fri Aug 20 22:11:21 1982
Received: Sun Aug 22 00:45:23 1982

From: Martin Schoffstall 
I just graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), so I can 
probably inform you of what we did.  Every scientist and engineering
major at RPI is required to take two (2) introductory computing courses
(this entails F77 programming on an IBM3033 and F77+graphics on two
PR1ME 750's), at least one course per semester (on the average)
includes "hacking" on the IBM or PR1ME (this is for engineers),
but if you really want to hack each student is given about 50 hours
of computer time per semester on the 3033 (free, whatever that means at $10k
a year).  This leaves out a number of unattended mini's that are public access
to the students.  There is also the ACM which owns a Borroughs
something-or-other and some micros.  There are also a number of micro's
bolted to tables in various departments that can be used (all you need is
ask).  Just as I left they were placing 10 IBM PC's in an open lab netted
together sharing a large hard disk with file access to the IBM3033.

I as a Computer and Systems Engineer probably had about half my courses
hacking on something including:

	1. IBM3033 (and its graphics options)
	2. PRIME650's and PRIME750's +graphics
	3. VAX-750
	4. micros: z-80,6800,8080 based.

I really don't consider myself a hacker and I really didn't use many
of the resources that were there.


schoff at bbn-unix