ABSTRACT
This chapter compares the results of two very different decisions regarding the implementation of planning for instructional computing: one in which a large research-oriented university decided to offer services itself, and the other in which a small liberal arts college decided initially to avail itself of network services. The unviersity of Michigan is a very large research-oriented institution with an impressive international reputation. Approximately one-third of the students are enrolled in graduate or professional programs. The experiences of San Jose State University (SJSU) seem to confirm the differential effects just described. SJSU is one of the nineteen colleges and universities that comprise the California State University and College System. By early 1969, system wide planning efforts had provided a hierarchical, distributed computing network with small- to medium-sized computers installed on each of the fourteen larger campuses and remote access to a larger central batch system shared by all nineteen campuses.
