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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: outrageous service contract & flaky optical (was  Re: Keyboard & Mouse)
Message-ID: <1990Jan23.185938.9020@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 23 Jan 90 18:59:38 GMT
References: <1990Jan21.202123.5070@heights.cit.cornell.edu> <1990Jan22.005053.3955@nueces.cactus.org>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <1990Jan22.005053.3955@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) writes:
>jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>
>>   Phew.... NeXT is making a hefty chunk with those.... Now I see
>>why a one year service contract is $800... (By the way, all these
>
>Pardon my french but... You have got to be shitting me!!!!! $800.00 a
>year.  That is ridiculous. I had to sell my damn car to buy this

Perhaps outrageous but fairly standard.  Running a business I have to
keep my computers on maintenance and the cost always seems to be
about 8-12% of retail/year.


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