My early hate of Lisp was a direct result of them teaching it on the VAX. I was told the VAX had 4MBytes of actual memory and the each Lisp instance took 5. I played poker in the basement of Upson II while the damn thing loaded my program and played more while it ran. Being a lover of Forth at that point, tended to make me think Lisp was a bit of a hog.
Somehow the school got a Cray (I think from a oil company), but they weren't given the manuals right away. The manuals that they printed came from microfiche I had. I'm not sure if any students ever got to use it.
UND did give a unique experience in a CompSci degree.