Co-operation of a Macintosh laboratory for Rensselaer's technical writing program

摘要

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Macintosh Laboratory is a partnership between Information Technology Services and the Department of Language Literature and Communication that attempts to meet a variety of instructional needs. One of the great promises of microcomputers has been to ease the integration of computing into the curriculum by allowing individual departments to design their own computing environments. Unfortunately, that promise has eluded many departments because their programs and their budgets are not large enough to justify the cost of microcomputer laboratories solely for their use. When a department does manage to obtain a private facility, they often have neither the interest nor the staff to keep it open for general campus use.