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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Who will buy the NeXT
Keywords: NeXT
Message-ID: <1989Dec12.042431.27606@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 12 Dec 89 04:24:31 GMT
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hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:

>In article <1989Dec8.232717.17733@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) writes:
>>
>>The microcenter at UT has sold dozens to students and professors even
>>though they charge $7200 for the base machine. A damn rip-off given
>>the amount of service I require of them. 
>>

>Since you sold your Mac for the same price as your NeXT, and you claim
>a rip-off, the question arises:  did you get more support for your Mac II 
>from the microcenter?

I bought my Mac II from a dealer and sold it to a non-student. I got
oodles of support from my dealer (Mr. Micro in Dallas).

>Also, does the microcenter support any other UNIX boxes?

No. There are no others like the NeXT. But, they don't support the NeXT.
The campus UNIX consultants do that. I don't know if any of the money I
spend goes to the comp center. I would assume that it doesn't.

What has my $700.00 gone for? I don't know. If it pays a consultant's
salary, then fine. If it pays for the maintenance guys to swap out my
two faulty opticals and change the fuse in my printer, I'd rather pay
the by the hour. I don't like flat service fees like this because, as
is usual, I have not gotten or asked for $700.00 worth of anyone's
time. In fact, the biggest drain on the consultant's time I have asked
for was help with sendmail. NeXT needs to make a config file compiler.
Sendmail is hell.

Chris




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