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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: Why the big price jump?
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Date: 21 Sep 90 04:27:00 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.034515.29804@wam.umd.edu> rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler) writes:


>   The educational price at UM is quite nice for a base NeXTstation: $3220,
>a price I can swallow.  But that only comes with a 105 MB HD, with only
>a limited selection of software installed (e.g. C++ or none of the developer's
>stuff is there -- what good is that for a CS major?).  True, you can get
>Mathematica on a 105, but to really do much, you need their 340 MB HD.

Maybe so, but whats your option? A MAC SE/30 with 8 MB RAM and an 80MB drive
will cost you the same, has less memory, speed, screen, and comes with _no_ bundled 
software to speak of. And if---being a CS major---you want a (pseudo) unix 
to go with that,  AUX will cost you an extra $2k (!!!) or so.

Anyway, NeXT will give you the other stuff on floppies, if you want it
(just like back in the old days, before flopticals :-)
--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)