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From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
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Subject: Re: Re: Univ. of VT chooses AT&T pc's
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 20:25:35 EDT
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> >> > Burlington, Vermont; .... Incoming freshmen ...will be required to
> >> > purchase [AT&T 6300 PC] starting in the fall of 1985. Students will
> >> What if they can't afford it?  
> >> 	marie desjardins
> >
> >Requiring freshmen in technical fields to purchase PCs of one sort or
> >another is becoming increasingly common, and it's not a bad thing.
> It's not a bad thing if you are asked to purchase or have a PC of any kind; they
> seem to be forcing the students to buy one brand. Its like forcing me to buy
>...

Actually, it makes getting asignments out a lot easier.  A good example
is when a college has a total of 6 terminals hooked up to a super-mini
and everyone has to use it at approximately the same time.  Massive bog.
So, your instructor says "Yes, you can do assignments somewhere else, as long
as you do it in Pascal, like everyone else."  It's at that point that
you find out how many flavors of Pascal there are.

Not only that, but you can trade off tools and other good things
if you are all running the same machines.

If you have to standardize on a PC-like machine, you might as well
lock in on a machine with 640x400 resolution and a display controller
that will run color simply by plugging a color monitor in!