Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!beth From: beth@umcp-cs.UUCP (Beth Katz) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Free and undirected campus computing facilities Message-ID: <1386@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 09:19:07 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1386 Posted: Tue Nov 27 09:19:07 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:09:12 EST References: <457@utcsrgv.UUCP> <649@watdcsu.UUCP> <425@watcgl.UUCP> <> <420@ncoast.UUCP> <420@wlcrjs.UUCP> Reply-To: beth@maryland.UUCP (Beth Katz) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 24 Summary: I won't discuss computer access here at Maryland other then to say that for grad students and some other people, there are opportunities to hack systems. The general undergraduate population doesn't have free or unlimited access. However, at the College of William and Mary (unfortunately the year after I graduated), they added a mandatory equipment fee to the usual student fees generally added to tuition. (I think it is something like $30 each semester.) EVERY student has an account on one of the school's Primes. There are many (>200) terminals available throughout campus with a few printers scattered as appropriate. Students are encouraged to use the computer for other subjects. (They have some intros to get people started.) This approach seems to be working. The university finally decided to provide enough computing resources to handle the crunch. As more people use the computers, more computers will be added. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of room for system hacking on the main machines. I'm not sure of the availability of other systems (things have changed in three years). Someone associated with W&M (Hey, Bob, are you reading this?) could say how that is handled. And I remember how difficult it was to get a TSO account for each semester. :-) These people may never have seen a keypunch machine. :-) Beth Katz {seismo,allegra,rlgvax}!umcp-cs!beth