CompuServe Messages

Don– My college has spent about a million and a half on computers recently. We were offering a ridiculous $4.50 an hour for "lab monitors" and were naturally having trouble keeping any. We have ONE technical user support person. This is, as you say, a very BAD situation. We try to tell the Deans and the President how badly we neeed support personnell–trainers, esp. Guess what happens in budget setting? The real world is not as it should be. Finding a balance between a closed, almost patronizing, system like the MAC and a hacker's heaven like the II series and the Amiga is not easy. Still, I think not letting a disk get ejected while it is being written to makes some sense if it would cost less than $20. to implement. I wonder how much it would cost? // Jim