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Date: Sun 03-Nov-1989 04:54:55 From: Unknown Subject: Campus Pricing Well, I stopped by our campus store here at CMU, and found good news and bad news... The good news is the basic cube here runs only $6770. The bad news (and this is *bad*!), the store claims it is limited by its contract with NeXT to only sell to departments! No student pricing is available at all...period. Is this common? Are other campus stores limited in this way? Or, perhaps is CMU's store confused? I'd be interested to know... -- Dan Crimmins dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu >From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
Date: Sun 03-Nov-1989 07:34:07 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Campus Pricing CMU has limited things in such a way because CMU doesn't really want students purchasing cubes yet-- it doesn't fit into the scheme of things. There is no network support for the dorms for a cube, nor is there any softwware for it to work with AMS or the rest of Andrew (though, I suspect there is something along those lines somewhere-- anyone in the know care to comment?) b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu problem)... but I'm a developer and plan on avoiding CMU comp store altogether. >From: layer@akbar.COM (Kevin Layer)
Date: Sun 03-Nov-1989 14:43:07 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Campus Pricing In article <QZIFcTG00WB2IQ6mhx@andrew.cmu.edu> dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) writes: >Well, I stopped by our campus store here at CMU, and found good news >and bad news... > >The bad news (and this is *bad*!), the store claims it is limited by >its contract with NeXT to only sell to departments! No student pricing >is available at all...period. > >Is this common? Are other campus stores limited in this way? My understanding is that the University of Pennsylvania has the same restriction, although they say that they may review the contact if student demand should warrant it. This is strictly a matter of what the school decides to do. It is NOT a restriction imposed by NeXT.
Date: Sun 04-Nov-1989 00:22:14 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Campus Pricing In article <UZIHxjK00Ugy82V2Mw@andrew.cmu.edu> wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: >There is no network support for the dorms for a cube, nor is there >any softwware for it to work with AMS or the rest of Andrew (though, >I suspect there is something along those lines somewhere-- anyone >in the know care to comment?) I'm not sure what you mean by network support in the dorms for a cube. Do you mean modem lines or data lines in general? Its kinda expensive to outfit each dorm room with its own ethernet cable (quite expensive). Over here at the University of Rochester, we use something called Rolmphones. These phones have RS-232 interfaces built into them so you can hook up your computer to them and use a telecommunications program to access the school network (and call outboard modem pools). Still, this is no ethernet, and I don't know if the cube has the software to interface with the Rolmphones (something like "tip"?). Mark
Date: Sun 04-Nov-1989 19:14:09 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Campus Pricing <3795@ur-cc.UUCP> Every dorm on campus has both TokenRing and PhoneTalk in it-- two plugs for a double, three for a triple, etc. The campus is well networked for all but ether. The wiring closet down the hall has ether in it, but I don't think DataCom (the net police around here) would appreciate any modifications. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu >From: hal@wilbur.uucp (Hal Roseman (818 889 2168))
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