Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!mikel From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school? Message-ID: <53955@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 13 Jun 91 16:41:00 GMT References: <1991Jun13.150159.24629@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 22 In article <1991Jun13.150159.24629@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) writes: >Sort of an interesting thing happened in our Department (music). Due to >extremely depressing budget constraints, we have not been able to do much >beyond a single cube (plus access to the wonderful Columbia NeXTstation lab, >but disk space for soundfiles is limited there!). However, almost every >serious computer music student we have took advantage of the NeXT/B-land >sale to purchase old cubes with large disks, and a few have now upgraded to >040 machines. Others have purchased NeXTstations through the school. So we >now have a large number of students with better facilities in their dorm >rooms than we can offer through the University. The future...? If this is so, and if students there are working on music software, and if they and the university are willing to provide some of that software for ftp, I am sure that many NeXT users would be grateful for the chance to use the software. The absence of much in the way of commercial music and MIDI software on the NeXT is ironic and frustrating. In fact, an enterprising music student who is also a programmer could conceivably make some money selling a nice MIDI application for the NeXT.