Using microcomputers as satellites in a time-sharing environment

Abstract

So it goes, these days, in colleges across the land. The comments about 8's and 89's are from Ph.D. mathematicians, not discussing number theory, but debating microcomputers. (The fellow in the back obviously had not kept up with the newest new math.) Even the ivory tower mathematicians are being drawn into the microcomputer revolution. Until a few years ago, mathematics and science at St. Olaf College, as at most colleges, used a central time-sharing minicomputer for all instructional needs. The twin Dartmouth inventions of BASIC and time-sharing seemed ideal tools for computing in an undergraduate environment.