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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 10baseT & Cheapernet
Message-ID: <868@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 21 Sep 90 03:30:33 GMT
References: <9453@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <9453@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
	whelan@donald.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
>	With the new NeXTs supporting both thin and twisted pair
>ethernet it would seem a reasonable to ask if both ports can be
>simultaneously active.  Can I use a new NeXT to link a thinwire
>network to a twisted pair net?

The answer from last night's BaNG meeting/demonstration was "no."

>	Oh, and how about those educational prices?  What are we looking
>at for a base NeXTstation slab?

It lists for $4995, I don't know of any ed. sites getting less
than a 30% discount.  (Last night) Someone asked how much
students would have to pay (given the horrendous markups some
schools tack on), and a rep from UCLA gave their price.  All I
can say is, I wouldn't be surprised if you-know-who's sales took
a nosedive.  Personally, I wouldn't get one without the optional
340MB internal drive (and the full software release), but the
price is still well within range of people who would otherwise
buy you-know-whats from you-know-who.

					-=EPS=-