ed@hpfcmp.UUCP (ed) (12/20/84)
Subject: Re: Free and undirected campus computing facilities - Not at Waterloo (medium long) > Little or none availible machine resources is the way most of the real world > is. If there are not enough comnputing resources around,us in the real world > also have to beg and plead with the boss ,board of governors,etc ... Where do you work? For the gov.? There is a maxim when it comes to computers, "There's never enough." Be that disk space, processor, or whatever. This is true in the "real world" and in acadamia but, I would love for you to go back and see the conditions at campus computing facilities, it's horrible! Worse than anything we see in the "real world." I think you've been away from acadamia for too long. > My solution for these students is to either go out and buy PC's (maybe even > a apple) to get around to large problem, or try to get more money from > your alumni for more computing facilities. Unless of course you wish to pay > higher tuition fees,thats another way for the university to afford more > computers. Your very understanding! Did someone also pay your way through school. Some students don't have a couple of extra thousand to buy a PC. Some students graduate with > 10,000$ owed to the gov. Alumni is an interesting idea, gee I wonder if anyone has thought of that one before! (-: > When I was in school, Go ahead Grandpa, tell us how it was in the good old days. A more constructive, and growing idea is donation. Here at CSU we get donations from HP and from DEC. The companies get large bases of potential customers when the students graduate and the students get more computing power. Why do you think UNIX got so big? Ed Arnold (hpfcla!ed) These views are in no way held by HP.