In this issue we will present a ten year history of the penetration of desktop microcomputers into Baylor departments. Future issues will also deal with the changes that we will experience in the future which will be far greater than anything that we have seen to date. Baylor has 2,380 microcomputers on campus and almost all are on the campus network. Most faculty and staff members have a microcomputer on their desk. We have one university network and one e-mail system for all faculty and staff.
Students have access to e-mail, the Internet and many information technology resources and tools.
Few universities can match our percentage of faculty and staff with computers, with Internet access, with a common e-mail system and with the rich variety of tools and information available. It should be evident that no department and few individuals have escaped the influence of the computer revolution. Yet the future is more exciting than the past. About 50 Apple II computers and a few other brands were purchased during this initiation stage. In 1984-85, Baylor first committed heavily to the microcomputer revolution.