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In article <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>Background: Several people have suggested solving the
>archive server space crunch by asking users to kick in money
>to purchase additional drives for sonata and orst.  I've
>volunteered to collect pledges and to contact Purdue and
>Oregon State to see what they think of the idea.  I'll do
>that at the beginning of next week.  Five people pledged
>money in the first hour, six counting me.  The amounts so
>far are like $10-$20 for each server site.
>

Humm. One of my support buddies told me a while back that he was
busy installing the 1.4 Gig disk that NeXT had donated us because orst
was keeping archives. I wonder if the additional space is 
necessary... but hey, if you want to give us even MORE space...

>Although this seems to be an idea whose time has come,
>please be aware that the universities involved might not be
>as enthusiastic about it as we are.  There are always
>bureaucracies, policy implications, and hidden costs to be
>involved in such enterprises, as well I know, having worked
>at universities for 40 years.
>
Humm, I'm just a student, but one thing that oregon state has never 
said no too is donations.

I just wish we had more NeXTs around here. It's weird going to the
school that has a huge NeXT software archive, and as of now our CS 
department has ONE NeXT (a 68030 with 8MB RAM) - the other one having had
it's RAM stolen out of it by some low life. cs.orst.edu is an HP 9000/375.

Actually, there are quite a few NeXT's around here - all student owned.
Anybody who does programming of and who has used a NeXT seems to like them,
but I haven't seen a single CompSci class yet for NeXT programming..not
surprising considering the one 68030 NeXT. 

- Vareck Bostrom
bostrov@research.cs.orst.edu