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From: randall@redfish.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall)
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Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 14:16:35 GMT
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In article <lh5H?zbu@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)  
writes:
>
>How well does NeXT seem to be gaining acceptance on college campuses?
>What is the general attitude of the computing community?  And are
>people trading in their "Macintoys"(to quote Eric Scott) and PC's for
>the NeXT? 

My department (Atmospheric Science) has fourteen of various types, including  
one NeXTDimension. Also five NeXT printers. Four out of thirteen faculty have  
bought, and a fifth seems about ready to jump. Keep in mind that some of the  
thirteen don't have much need for a workstation. NeXT outnumbers Sun and Dec  
(separately, not combined) even though those two vendors had a head big start.  
I predict that we will hit 20 NeXT machines before the end of this calendar  
year.

And they'll all be upgraded to 88K!