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From: ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: unused gifts
Message-ID: <404@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 08:47:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ndsuvax.404
Posted: Wed Aug 12 08:47:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 06:12:37 EDT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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Keywords: examples


     Since I was asked to produce examples, I will cite several that I have 
seen, but will not mention the schools involved.
 1.  I once visited a major University and was shown a room of about 25 SUN
workstations which were just sitting there and had been sitting there for more
than 2 months.
 2.  I visited another University in a large metropolitan area and was shown a 
network of 30 plus AT&T 3B5 and bigger machines which was connected, but had
only been tested.  The Department was presently trying to decide how to use the
gift.  I later learned it took them more than 8 months from receipt of the gift
to actually starting to use it.
 3.  There is another University which received 12 minicomputers plus networking
hardware and software in February of this year, but has thus far powered up 
two of the machines and used them standalone.  The rest of the gift has not 
even been turned on to see if they work.
    I know of 4 other similar incidents.  I did not seek them out.