Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!helios!daugher From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Upgrade Policies? Summary: likely OK Keywords: NeXT, 68040, color, upgrade Message-ID: <7892@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 1 Sep 90 00:27:02 GMT References: <298@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <7852@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 26 In article smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (William V. Smith) writes: >>The $1495 (suggested retail, educational discount applies) upgrade will be to >>swap main CPU boards. You pull your memory chips, send in the 68030 board and >>$1495, and they send you the 68040 board. It cannot include 24-bit grayscale >You mean they aren't sending the board first?? Seems pretty mean to >make you do without a main board while the thing's in the mail. . . You're quite right; maybe you send in your money, they send you the 68040 and then you have a certain length of time to return the 68030 board or pay for it. (Kind of like getting a rebuilt starter for your car?) Now what could NeXT do with a bunch of just-made-obsolescent 68030 boards? Well, they'd probably get the most mileage out of selling them to universities in a pizza box ***REAL*** cheap. Imagine a couple hundred colleges and universities each with a lab full of NeXT's! It's enough to make a marketing manager drool. IBM, Apple, and DEC have all benefitted tremendously from subsidizing the educational market, and NeXT has made a good start with their educational pricing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Knowledge Systems Research Center uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher Texas A & M University BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS College Station, TX 77843-3112 CSNET: daugher%cs.tamu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---