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From: IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Publicizing NeXT
Message-ID: <91124.211848IO92395@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 5 May 91 01:18:48 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System
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Hi,

Just came across this here at the University of Maine. It seems that Apple
and the University have come to an agreement that Apple would make Macintosh
LCs and printers available to students in their rooms in the Dorms for a
semester for a prepaid small amount of money. They will be given software etc.
A lease kind of arrangement, I guess.

I think a similar thing can be done by NeXT as a great promotion campaign. They
may not want to lease NeXTs to students, but they could lease them to
Universities for faculty to use and to the industry, for an year or so. If
the company/Uinversity likes them, as they will, then they could pay the
remaining sum to NeXT and keep the machines. If not, NeXT could sell those
machines as Demos to poor students like some of us. This way NeXT could be
brought to the attention of a large number of people in the shortest period
of time. Hey, if the machine is in your office, you would use it, would'nt
you?

So what do you think guys?

How about it NeXT?

P.S.: If this kind of a thing is already going on, ignore this posting
obviously.



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