In the hopes that if you get ’em young, you keep ’em for life, IBM Corp has joined forces with the David Lipscomb University, based in Nashville, Tennessee to help create what is described as a 21st century campus: heart of Lipscomb’s computer initiative is a fibre-optic network that will link every dormitory room, faculty office and classroom with the campus mainframe by this autumn; a total of 268 personal computers, most of which are PS/2s, will be installed on campus and supported by IBM and Lipscomb will establish a Faculty Resource Centre, with a full-time director, to popularise the use of the computer in the curriculum; the director will be trained by IBM, which will benevolently develop a strategic computing plan for Lipscomb – what tear-jerking altruism.
