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From: riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan)
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Subject: PC Week:  "NeXT Readies Two Systems"
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Date: 31 Jul 90 23:51:41 GMT
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Page 8 of the 30 July 1990 issue of PC Week has a brief article on 
the next NeXTs.  Their info is based on "sources close to the company"
(i.e., this is officially just a rumor), but I give PC Week's rumors a
fair bit of credence.  

In September NeXT will announce two new machines, both based on
the Motorola 68040.  Both will include a 2.88Mbyte floppy drive capable
of reading IBM-style floppies.  Also, both will include a 100MB hard disk.
(I dunno how they are going to fit the OS, apps, doc & swap space on it.)
Optical disk drives are optional.

One will be a monochrome system selling for under $5000.  
This will be a "pizza-box" system with no expansion slots.

The other will be a 32-bit color system, possibly using Renderman
graphics.  It will sell for under $10 000.  I don't know if this is
educational or Businessland pricing--probably the latter.

This is definitely not an announcement by NeXT, but it is a rumor
whose substance I believe.