1982-1986

SYSTEM ADDED AT ECJC

Ron Byxbe, Director of Computer Services and Com- puter Science Instructor at East Central Junior College, is shown in the new computer lab explaining the opera- tion of the new televideo system to Pam Savell of Union, a business administration major at ECJC. East Central has recently added the televideo with nine terminals along with software packages such as Word Star word process- ing to be used.in computer science courses this fall. East Central began last fall offering a curriculum in computer scienrz that is trsnsferable to senior colleees and ap-

plicable toward a four year degree. E Central expecl to have approximately 150 students in its computer science courses during the fall semester. Evening cow- puter science coursesare offered as well as day. East C ~ I tral will continue to offer as it has for the past ten yea1 its curriculum in data processing leading to a two yea associate in science degree. In the fall of 1981, East Cer tral converted to the IBM System 34 and is using this sytem in its data processing teaching as well as computg science.