info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (08/16/84)
From: Wang Zeep <G.ZEEP%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA> MIT's Information Processing Services and Purchasing Dept. are currently putting the final touches on a contract with Apple for Apple 32 family stuff. Discounts will range from somewhere around 40 to 60%. Apparently, price is not the real issue; Apple's and MIT's respective responsibilities are. The opposite is true for the IBM contract that is being negotiated concurrently; IBM is good on service, but lousy on the discounts. This program would be open to any members of the MIT community. While most of the people reading this list are not from MIT, I thought that following might be of interest to all: Apparently MIT did not join the Consortium because the contract called for too much equipment to be pruchased by MIT (and was to be signed without seeing the Mac). Apple is said to want to get MIT into a pseudo-Consortium as soon as possible. Personally, I don't know why (SU, CMU, etc. are doing a great job of making the Mac work), but that's the story. Your faithful correspondent, Wang Zeep Mass. Tool & Die -------
info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (08/18/84)
From: Mike Caplinger <mike@rice.ARPA> "and was to be signed without seeing the Mac..." I don't know what planet MIT is on. Some Rice people were certainly given ample opportunity to see the Mac before WE joined the AUC. - Mike