You should use the Macintosh or Windows computers for this task. Software available for use on these systems includes Web browsing programs, Word processors and presentation programs, graphing programs, curve-fitting programs, Mathematica, and various chemical drawing, modelling and visualisation systems. Good Practice in Computer Use Game playing is strongly discouraged. When using personal computers, you are strongly advised to store your personal documents and files on your 20 Mbyte allocation of network disk space. Keep at least one backup copy of critical files on floppy disks or ZIP disks as well.
Laser printers are available for course work in the computer room.
These should be used to print essential documents only, and in any case a print limit of 30 sheets is imposed. We reserve the right to charge for larger print jobs at the rate of 5p per page. You may wish to acquire personal copies of some software for use on your own computer. Licenses can be purchased from the computer shop in Mechanical Engineering . You are reminded that use of unlicensed software is illegal.