Information Systems Annual Survey
The MIT Information Systems conducts an annual survey on computer use at MIT.
The last survey was conducted in Spring 2000. Some of the interesting statistics from their survey include the following:

• 92% of said they owned a computer
• 22% said they owned 2 or more computers
• 88% use an IBM-PC clone
• 80% have desktop machines
• 52% of students with computers own printers in spite of the large number of Athena Printers.
• 56% buy computers from manufacturers and local retail.
• Approximate lifetime of computer is 4 years.
• 30% of Students own a PDA

The entire Information Systems survey may be viewed here.