Entering students receive a personal notebook computer, appropriate software, and a printer, all included as part of the student's tuition. In addition, each student receives an account providing access to the Hartwick network and computer system at registration. The core of the Hartwick system is a network that links together most computers on campus. It is part of a VAX cluster with additional VAX 3100's. Hartwick's Stevens-German Library has its catalog and circulation records stored in a DEC VAX 5500 which has disk capacity of 6,000 megabytes.
Every student has an account which allows access to the full facilities of the Internet.
Internet access is available from this cluster, as well as a wide variety of software ranging from wordprocessing and data analyis to interactive electronic textbooks.