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From: mark@rpp386.cactus.org (Mark Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT ( was Re: Vapourware!!! )
Message-ID: <17313@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 16 Nov 89 03:55:40 GMT
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>Check out comp.sys.next for the full & accurate scoop.
>
>(I don't own a NeXT.  Heck, I've never even SEEN one.  I'm just an interested
>watcher from the sidelines.)

Thanks for the information, Steve.  I have heard rumors about the hard drive
being installed in every cube, but I couldn't find a reliable source.  I'll
check out comp.sys.next.

By the way,  I have seen the NeXT.  It was at a computer show in Austin Tx.
The sales representative was from an Apple background and really didn't
know the technical background of the computer, just the names of the software
that the store he represented sold, which was just the operating system.
 
The Next took a seemingly endless time booting.  The optical drive seemed
to really drag.  Over all, I wasn't impressed with the machine because of
the demonstrator and because of the slow drive access.  I got so board,
that I started to talk to a salesman selling Bottled water for healthy
computer office environments.  I won't judge NeXT on that demonstration,
though.  I think it was just a bad environment for that machine.

Mark Lehmann :>
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