These are the currently effective rates. The basic charge per user account per month is now $30. The rates have been adjusted up/down to reflect the fluctuating cost of materials and the addition of new printers and server/backup hardware.
The total rate structure is:
Every computer account in Astronomy pays a $30.00 monthly charge for an account on any workstation. The basic charge also covers the use of a small amount of system resources on the public computers in room 501b free of charge:
Connect CPU Printed pages Disk Mbytes
Unix user: 4 Hrs .17 Hrs 20 2
Connect time (PRIME) 0.30 Connect time 0.30 CPU time (PRIME) 5.00 CPU time 2.50 Printed pages 0.07 Disk Mbytes/month 0.03 Printed color pages 0.65 Printed photo 1.65 (printer "color") (printer "photo") Printed poster pages 15.00 Backup per Gbyte/month 2.00 Per Account/month 30.00 Per CPU/month 5.00 Computers for which Connect time and CPU time are charged: astron, puck, and irk.
Use of the CPU of private machines is free, of course.