About Us
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) computer lab is located in the basement of the Animal Sciences building, rooms 145, 149 and 150. The lab is open and free of charge (except for laser printing) to all University students, faculty and staff.
The facility has two major computing components: a Hewlett-Packard minicomputer, and a PC and Macintosh microcomputer lab. The CALS Computer Facility is managed by Peter Crump (263-2816) and Tom Tabone (263-3942). An operator/consultant is also on duty at all times to help assist users (263-2817). The computer facility works in close conjunction with the CALS Statistical Consulting Facility (263-4946).
What's New
MacBook Pro dual-boot laptops! These laptops can be booted up to run as either Mac's or PC's. The CALS Lab is checking them out for up to 3 days! Just bring your student ID and another from of photo ID over to the lab. These machines are checked out on a 'first come, first served' basis. Call 263-2817 if you want to make sure one is availabale before stopping by. We also have Dell Inspiron 700m PC's and Mac PowerBook G4's.
Portable Projectors! The lab now has 2 portable XGA Projectors that can be checked out. There is a brand new Panasonic which is a little bigger than the older ViewSonic which is still running great. Call to see if it is available or reserve it if you know you would like to use it in advance.
Virus Protection: All students can get their own copy of Norton AntiVirus FREE to install on their home computer. Download it here, burn it to a CD and install it on your home computer.
