Starting a session Mathematica is currently available only on the DEC stations in room 1120 of the A.V. Williams building. It is also available on sparcee, which is reserved for the sole use of EE students. To use Mathematica from other Glue machines you could remote login to the machines that have Mathematica on them and use the package. To start Mathematica, you have to do the following: pascal:~: tap mathematica pascal:~: math If you are on the DEC station in room 1120 ( A.V. Williams ), you could also use the dash menu to start Mathamtica. You click on the `Applications' menu with you left mouse button and then go to `Tap' and finally to `m-z'. Clicking on mathmatica on this sub-menu will start mathematica up for you. On starting up Mathematica prints out In[1]:=, prompting you enter your first line of input.