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Newly installed word processors which have been available for the past week at no charge will now cost users at least three dollars per hour.
The processors were installed April 1 in Currier, Leverett, and Mather Houses and the Freshman Union, and made available for student use April 5.
Currently, all the machines donated by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), are coin-operated, but once improved coin boxes arrive, the processors will also accept tokens.
After the change to tokens is made, the processors will cost students $3 an hour, while using coins will cost $4 an hour.
The tokens will be available at the Science Center stockroom.
Kits of diskettes and instruction manuals for the "coinop" machines are on sale for $10 at the stockroom.
Students are purchasing these materials at a rate of about 10 to 12 kits a day, a stockroom worker said yesterday.
Mark Van Baslen '66, manager of data systems, said that the remainder of the processors will be deployed "as soon as we get a small shipment of coin boxes," which will probably not be until the fall.
Eve Goren, a staff member at the Office for Information Technology, said the program is "definitely very successful," and added that many students have used the processors.
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