Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Next MegaPixel Display Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 23:18:19 GMT References: <247@uw-apl.UUCP> <246300062@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Oct29.143915.22240@uncecs.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 27 In-reply-to: jfreem@uncecs.edu's message of 29 Oct 89 14:39:15 GMT In article <1989Oct29.143915.22240@uncecs.edu> jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes: >I believe that that part number was created to help the folks that wanted >to use their cube at the office and at home. Alot of folks would like to >do that without buying two machines. Funny, I thought he was reading the service price list. >The problem is that with the monitor and keyboard, that becomes a real >big package to cart around. The simplest solution was to sell the >monitor, mouse and keyboard for a very reasonable price and let the >user have one set at home and one at work. Then they just have to >cary the cube back and forth. I regularly move a NeXT from office to home and back. It's something of a production if you use the original packing material (which I do), but even then it's only about ten minutes work. If I weren't packing it up, it'd be trivial. Yes, the cube itself is the part that's easiest to move (as well as the sturdiest), but I doubt that there's a very large number of people interested in keeping a spare half-NeXT around. For me to consider something like this, I'd have to need to move it every day between tall buildings with no elevators, in a sports car. (PS: your Reply-To address is bogus: jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP) -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)