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I helped form the NeXT user’s group at BYU in the early 1990’s. I was the NeXT campus consultant. IIRC we hade 15-25 people who met, I want to say weekly. Wedne
by GlenTheMachine 7y ago
I helped form the NeXT user’s group at BYU in the early 1990’s. I was the NeXT campus consultant. IIRC we hade 15-25 people who met, I want to say weekly. Wednesday evenings I think. I was involved for two years, until I graduated.
The nice thing about our user’s group is that it drew both students and faculties, NeXT building fairly powerful workstations.
My primary role was to be the “crazy NeXT rumors guy” before John Moltz made that an internet thing. I would spend five or ten minutes every meeting providing comedic relief, talking about funny things NeXT would never ever do (warp drive, Bill Gates Terminator drones) plus one thing that I knew fairly certainly that they were actually doing. I would make members guess which rumor was actually true (which wasn’t all that hard).
- sircastor 7y agoI'm curious how many NeXT machines were on campus? Where did they end up (which depts)?
- GlenTheMachine 7y agoFunny, I don’t really remember. We had one prof from the music dept, and I think he had a number of them. I think a few in the “engineering technology” department, a few in graphic design. Kind of scattered. The CS department, in which I was a student, had none. We also drew members from the local community.