The 23 other colleges involved in the Apple Computer Consortium are waiting for their delivery of reduced price Macintosh personal computers, like Harvard is.

Around the country, consortium schools have already planned to replace much of their old equipment with new Apples.

Starting in the fall of 1984, many of Cornell University's Computer Sciences courses will be taught on the new Macintoshes, according to a story in the Cornell Daily Sun Furthermore, purchases of the Macintosh are expected to greatly alleviate pressure on the university's public terminals, said Richard W. Conway, computer science professor at Cornell.

At Notre Dame, the Macintoshes will be used in instructional labs and to develop much of the college's own didactic software.

At Yale, IBM and Digital computers will be sold to students as well, at 15 to 65 percent discount off the retail price.

Yale Provost William Brainard said in a Yale Daily News interview that Yale has discussed the "possibility of significant cooperative relations involving instructional computing with people from IBM."