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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.052129.17993@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 05:21:29 GMT
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In article <22107@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>I went to the Federal Computer Conference today.  Commodore had a

>NeXT was there too.  They had a bevy of cubes sitting around for
>demos. They also had a new box: the NeXTstation.  I picked up a
>brochure.
>
>It's in a box that looks just the same size and shape as the
>SPARCstation 1, but it's black (like the cube).  It's got a 105 Meg HD
>and a 2.88 meg floppy drive; no more optical.  It has 8 Meg RAM
>standard.  It still has the 17" monitor with 4 shades of grey.  With
>the reduced disk space, they no longer include the works of
>Shakespeare or Mathematica (still available but not included),
>otherwise the software looks the same.  It's got one expansion
>connector that appears to be for connecting the video display
>circuitry (therefore, it's now upgradable, and NeXT has been promising
>color for a while now).
>
>The shockers: It sports a 25MHz 68040, yes, an Oh Forty.  And the list
>price is $4995.
>
	Are you sure that the 040 comes on the $5,000 model? I
think that is a mix-up, either on your part or on NeXTs. I read
on NewsBytes (the directory has been wiped out and it is illegal
for me to post it anyway) that there were several new models
including a low-end version for $5,000 and a high-end one with
color for $13,000 or so. Giving the 040 for 5K is a drop in price
from the 030 price! Maybe it is like the Mac setup, how much ram?
how large a hard drive? keyboard? 8)
	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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