Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo; site apollo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!apollo!nazgul
From: nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: What is the world comeing to?/Charging for comp time
Message-ID: <132@apollo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 17:27:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: apollo.132
Posted: Tue Oct 11 17:27:37 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 04:02:58 EDT
References: <403@wateng.UUCP>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
Lines: 18

My undergrad college considered computer time a resource just like the
library or the gym.  Thus the computer center got its funds from everyones
tuition and *no-one* got charged for computer time or storage.  Additionally
anyone who asked got a free floppy for use with the micros.  The net result
is that I succeeded in getting quite a good computer education without ever
having to take a computer course (which weren't available at the time anyway).
Personally I think thats the way that a computer system should be run in
a learning environment.

Before anyone flames about overusage, etc..  There were strict rules laid down
as to usage priority.  Namely:  homework, hacking, games.  Any one of those good
boot anyone doing something with a lower priority.  There were also storage limits,
but you could get around those if you showed reason, or you could always ask for
the use of a tape.  Quite simple, and it worked.


                                            -kee