Re: Buy a permanent archive! (was Re: now on cco.caltech.edu ..)

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In article <1993Apr13.132659.1353@r-node.hub.org>, taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian
Tao) says:
>
>In article <93100.083722FDMWINK@UCF1VM.BITNET>, someone writes...
>>
>> About 6 months ago the Macintosh (GASP!!!!) Community raised over
>> 6K$ in about 3 weeks for a massive hard drive for the info-mac
>> archive at sumex-aim.
>
>    Man, $6000?  What does that get you, 8 gigs?!?  The Mac community
>has a higher proportion of professional, business types who can afford
>to shell out $100 each for something like this.  It seems csa2 has a lot
>more university students who can't afford this type of thing.  Do you
>know if they had any corporate sponsorship as well?  That's what we
>need (GS+, Alliance International, SevenHills, etc.)

All individual contributes of between $10 and $20. No corporate sponsors
wanted or needed!  If it's a good machine the people will support it.
(Or is that just a 'Field of Dreams').  Mac RULES!!!!!!

 --Larry Wink (fdmwink@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu <or> ljw@pro-magic.oau.org)