College of Engineering
            Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
			  Instructional Support Group

                            Equipement Loan Policy

                                                                 Feb 25 2016

ISG provides computers in labs for classes.   We do not rent or lend computers 
to individual students.  Our computers are the property of UC Regents, and when 
we dispose of old computers we send them to the UC "Excess & Salvage" operation 
(so UC can resell them).

Individuals can purchase items like this from the CAL Overstock & Surplus Den 
(http://property.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-surplus).

However, we can donate our old computers to student organizations, since the 
computers are then still in use by  UC.  So if you were a member of a UCB 
student organization, we can donate old computers to them and you could use 
the computers in their lab.

Between 1999 and 2004, we supported 80 IBM and HP laptops for CS160 and CS169 
students under Prof Landay's "Nomadic" laptop program.  This program ended 
when the laptops became obsolete and we were denied permission to change a 
lab fee that would cover the cost of replacements.

In 2004, we began support of 20 HP N6000 laptops for CS4 under Prof Garcia's 
"Mobile Lab" program.  EECS ISG no longer manages them.  Most of them died 
from hardware failures over the years, and in 2015 the remaining laptops were 
stored in a cart in 187 Soda for Prof Garcia.

For some related information, please see 
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=laptops.help .


                                    EECS Instructional Support Group (ISG)
                                    378 Cory Hall, 333 Soda Hall
                                    inst@eecs.berkeley.edu