1984 - Special Collections - Virginia Tech

Boo,u/ore computer wlttr and IBM·PCjr girt students
A "Peanut" for
Their Thoughts
"Oh no. IlOl: 101 ooche one of those diII55IeS
1hz uses oompu(e'rS1 ... Looks Ib m be
bKk to t~ terminals ac;Iln .~ This klnd of
drnded reaCllon W;lS ;I common 'e'
sponse 0/ t~ ave.age col1e~ st\!denl
laced wlth;l compute. science class, un ·
Ie" he"""5 a compute. science ICSI mi·
to., Knowled,e 01 computers made one
real1ze how much computers have to offer
_ In abundance 01 Inlo ...... tlon .nd an
eqllill ind eny accessibility to II.
Both CS maton ind mi ny OI~. stlldents
loaded up their schedules "'llh
com pUle. courses. Includln, rOllnd.·
lions of Compuler Science. IntrodUCIIon
to Compute. Science land libl. Diti
SUuclllres and FIle M.onacemenl, and In·
trodl.lCtlon to /'roVoImml.... S)"!'le~ Siu •
dents could hirdlycompliln about uyI ....
to Hnd a compute. terminal. for they were
Ioxaled In nearly eve')' academic bulldl",
011 (;impus: McB,),de. Whlnemore, Animal
Science. Bu.russ. Robeson. Randolph.
and Pamplin. The IBM·PC (personal com·
pute.) o«upled the second noo.o/ New·
man Ubl'il')' and Bulldln, 270, Ioc:aled IUlt
behind Randolph. Bulldl", 270 was also
equipped .... lth compute. terminals lor
those who ......"ted to use TAB termln.all
for the VAX and CMS s)"!'tems.
One cI the mosl recent addltlons In the
I~ cI computers "",,5 the Person.al Com·
puter Center In the University 800btore
The center his sold hitd"""re lcompute.
macillne')'l ;lnd .a/tw;lre (compuler pro.
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