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Date: Sun 07-Mar-1989 00:54:16 From: Unknown Subject: wrinkled availabilty contour We have some NeXt's on campus and i have been to a couple of demos; i thought that once the machines 'start showing up' up someplace, that that implies that the bally-hoo'ed class of 'authorized university affiliates' could buy them. It turns out that at UCSB, the purchasing department is the only channel for orders and they will only order them for departments, NOT for individuals. So Jobs' famous exhortation: "if they havent' got bread, let them eat cake, if they haven't got cake, LET THEM ENROLL" doesn't cover all or even the majority of cvases!!!!!! >From: crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum)
Date: Sun 07-Mar-1989 22:57:40 From: Unknown Subject: Re: wrinkled availabilty contour In article <1308@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes: >affiliates' could buy them. It turns out that at UCSB, the purchasing >department is the only channel for orders and they will only order them >for departments, NOT for individuals. So Jobs' famous exhortation: SIGH!! Folks, the key phrase above is "...at UCSB..."! The contract of who the Univ sells to (on campus), is entirely up the the State and the University. Here at OSU, we have the same deal, but the hangup was not with NeXT but with the various differences with state contracts. By the time that 1.0 is finally revealed, I suspect that the contract will be hammered out and that the students will be able to get them. From what I'm told, it took Apple almost 2 years to get through the contract stuff here and to be able to sell to students. To the folks here at OSU... This isn't a flame, it's just the reality of the system. Tom Leach leach@oce.orst.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Middle-of-the-road, man, it stanks. Let's run over Lionel Richie with a tank. >>>Disclaim: It's me, not OCE.<<< B. Catt, Deathtongue. (c 1986) >From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
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