[Tfug] TUSD Tech Nightmare

[Shawn Nock]

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What you are describing below is not corruption, rather it is a purely
philanthropic scholarship program for local needy Unix geeks.

I picked up 1 of my two NeXT machines (a 25MHz slab), and my Indigo2 at
U surplus years ago. I personally love the "fire sale" qualities of the
surplus office (everything must go!). Recently I've noticed that most of
the stock is simply old beige wintel boxes (going for way too much
money). What happened to computers with substance and style?

Peace,
Shawn

Bowie J. Poag wrote:

> Even the UofA has it's issues. I used to *routinely* pick up NeXT 
> workstations from the UofA auctions. $10k-$15k Unix workstations who's 
> function could have easilly been replicated with a simple X terminal. 
> And besides, why NeXT?  When I worked for UofA, there was a woman in our 
> department that had managed to get her own SGI o2 gumdrop workstation, 
> which, at the time, was about $12k. A massive hot-rod graphics 
> workstation. Her justification for buying it? "It looked user friendly, 
> like my Mac at home". When she found out it wasn't a Mac, it just 
> collected dust in her office. A couple grad students ended up using it 
> as an X terminal to contact a bunch of antique RS/6000's I maintained. 
> Nothing I could do about it but shake my head in disbelief at how 
> financially irresponsible (and occasionally corrupt!) the department was.
> 
> Ahhh, the stories I could tell you over a beer.. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Bowie



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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
Unix Systems Group; CCIT
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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