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- From: bostrov@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU (Vareck Bostrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Drive drive
- Message-ID: <1jukg7INNanr@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:43:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: flop.1jukg7INNanr
- References: <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu>
- Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
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- In article <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- >Background: Several people have suggested solving the
- >archive server space crunch by asking users to kick in money
- >to purchase additional drives for sonata and orst. I've
- >volunteered to collect pledges and to contact Purdue and
- >Oregon State to see what they think of the idea. I'll do
- >that at the beginning of next week. Five people pledged
- >money in the first hour, six counting me. The amounts so
- >far are like $10-$20 for each server site.
- >
-
- Humm. One of my support buddies told me a while back that he was
- busy installing the 1.4 Gig disk that NeXT had donated us because orst
- was keeping archives. I wonder if the additional space is
- necessary... but hey, if you want to give us even MORE space...
-
- >Although this seems to be an idea whose time has come,
- >please be aware that the universities involved might not be
- >as enthusiastic about it as we are. There are always
- >bureaucracies, policy implications, and hidden costs to be
- >involved in such enterprises, as well I know, having worked
- >at universities for 40 years.
- >
- Humm, I'm just a student, but one thing that oregon state has never
- said no too is donations.
-
- I just wish we had more NeXTs around here. It's weird going to the
- school that has a huge NeXT software archive, and as of now our CS
- department has ONE NeXT (a 68030 with 8MB RAM) - the other one having had
- it's RAM stolen out of it by some low life. cs.orst.edu is an HP 9000/375.
-
- Actually, there are quite a few NeXT's around here - all student owned.
- Anybody who does programming of and who has used a NeXT seems to like them,
- but I haven't seen a single CompSci class yet for NeXT programming..not
- surprising considering the one 68030 NeXT.
-
- - Vareck Bostrom
- bostrov@research.cs.orst.edu
-