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From: fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Buy a new NeXT?
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.095055.25336@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 09:50:55 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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I am considering to buy a new NeXT. I am interested in the extended
distribution of software. This can be done if I get the 340 MB hard
drive or the 105 MB hard drive plus the optical disk. How unreliable
is the optical disk? What is the drive's mean time between failure?
How permanent is the information stored on the optical disks? How
good a backup medium is the OD?
     I've heard that the academic discounted price for the basic slab
is on the order of $3300. How much more expensive is the same system
in a cube?
    Muchas gracias in advance.
                                  -Fernando J. Selman

P.S. Can the cube hold the 105 MB drive, the 2.88 MB floppy and the
     optical disk?