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From: scott@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Holt)
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Subject: Re: On required pc's (ref UVM & AT&T)
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 12:59:54 EDT
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> 
> 	Students in the engineering and business disciplines will find
> themselves inexorably involved with personal workstations, should they
> choose to remain with their chosen carreer paths.  The sooner they become
> comfortable and conversant with the technology, the sooner they will
> make it work more effectively for them.  
> 
Its not a question of whether or not having access to a personal computer would
be benificial to students, obviously it would. It is a question of who should
pay. Personally, I feel the institutes should pay...do we ask chemisty
students to buy all their lab equipment? Mabey in the form of a lab fee,
but it would be crazy to ask them to pay for it all...it should be the same
for any expensive piece of equipment.
> 
> 	For what students are paying to go to college these days, I 
> think they need to get the greatest possible return on their money,
> hard-earned or otherwise.  The extra cost of a personal workstation and
> the improved productivity it allows makes it attractive purely from a
> cost/benefit viewpoint.  

  There are many of us who cannot afford the cost, whatever the benifit,
we just dont have the cash.

  I know that if my school had required me to buy a PC when I came here, I 
would not have come here...it would have been too expensive. I would have had
to go out of state, probably very far away, to get a similar education...that
would have been just as expensive as buying the PC...forget about financial
aid, my parents make just too much...the ONLY good part about the entire thing
would have been that upon graduation, I could have passed the computer on
to my little brother, who starts just after I graduate. 
> 
> 	Or they can sell it at the end of four years and recoup some
> of the investment.
> -- 
   Now just what is the value of a PC depriciated over 4 years?

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"Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"

Scott Holt
Georgia Tech Po Box 36199
Atlanta, GA 30332

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