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From: cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Your school doesn't have a contract, you say?
Summary: UofM(ichigan) wasn't going to support NeXT
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Date: 8 Nov 90 05:55:25 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.172831.16256@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan) writes:
>Michigan State University is in the process of becoming a "hub school".

>"Hub" schools provide support to smaller institutions that couldn't

>Mark Riordan  Mich State Univ.   riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu

I hate to say it but they almost had to support a not so small institution:
The University of Michigan.
Up until a few months ago, Michigan had refused to support NeXT. It was sad 
because we have some of the best facilities in the world.  Apollo's all over
the Engineering campus and massive Macintosh labs all over campus, as well as
DEC's, Sun's, and others.  They felt they had the NeXT niche covered by other
equipment and didn't even want to sell the computers to the students which
really pissed me off!  I here they came around though and for that I am happy.

Eric Bennett

PS It has been said that UofM has one of the biggest Appletalk networks in the
world.  Yes, I know this is comp.sys.next.