The requesting department is charged for the license of the application. The Intel-based computers in the university's instructional computing labs all run Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with Service Pack 4. The computers' OS and approximately 60 applications are installed and maintained using a method of hard-drive copying known as multicast disk cloning. The installations on each computer are refreshed every semester and as needed to add software or fix problems that might be discovered. Print jobs are sent to networked HP LaserJet printers located in each of the labs.
Students use pre-purchased print cards at the print station in each lab to pay for print jobs.
Note that computer accounts pre 1995 were voluntary and post 1995 were issued to all students. WinNT utilization is tracked by system log and sampled periodically. This chart is intended represents the average percent of the time the computers in the open lab are in use. Superimposed on the bar chart is a graph representing the average percent of the time when there are students queued up waiting for a free WinNT computer.