Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Hidden costs for students Message-ID: <89268.100847UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:08:47 GMT References: <1989Sep22.192608.2122@agate.berkeley.edu> <89267.172438UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> <1989Sep25.034245.7245@nueces.cactus.org> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 18 In article <1989Sep25.034245.7245@nueces.cactus.org>, chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) says: > >UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: > >>What happens if one buys a NeXT at University X, and then moves on to >>University Y. Who is responsible for support? > >What kind of support are you talking about. Your warranty is a NeXT >warranty so, it should apply at any NeXT service center. Otherwise, >you have to buy it. > I thought that the reason that NeXT required universities to buy a couple of machines and send people to camp was to give support. I mean the kind you get when you call ATT or DEC and ask questions, like "Where is it in the manual?" or "Can you tell me how to?" You say "any NeXT service center." Do you mean university computer centers that are in on the NeXT deal, or is there some other kind of NeXT service center?