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From: leach@neptune.uucp (Tom Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: wrinkled availabilty contour
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Date: 7 Mar 89 22:57:40 GMT
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In article <1308@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
>affiliates' could buy them.  It turns out that at UCSB, the purchasing
>department is the only channel for orders and they will only order them
>for departments, NOT for individuals.   So Jobs' famous exhortation:

SIGH!!  Folks, the key phrase above is "...at UCSB..."!  The contract of
who the Univ sells to (on campus), is entirely up the the State and the
University.  Here at OSU, we have the same deal, but the hangup was not
with NeXT but with the various differences with state contracts.  By the 
time that 1.0 is finally revealed, I suspect that the contract will be 
hammered out and that the students will be able to get them.  From what
I'm told, it took Apple almost 2 years to get through the contract stuff
here and to be able to sell to students.

To the folks here at OSU... This isn't a flame, it's just the reality of
the system.

Tom Leach
leach@oce.orst.edu


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