Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 15,000 orders---inflated? Message-ID: Date: 21 Sep 90 02:15:26 GMT References: <382@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: na Organization: /home/server2/melling/.organization Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu's message of 20 Sep 90 22:35:37 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: client6.cs.psu.edu Why doesn't NeXT offer machines w/o the 105 Mb drive and sell them for $500 less? A network of NeXT's would only require the 40 meg hard drive for swapping on each machine. I think it's still going to be a hard sell for NeXT on college campus'. The Mac is entrenched(Apple is hard at work unloading SE's on unsuspecting college students at PSU), and the PC just won't go away. Besides, the NeXT's are still priced out of the average college student's market. In fact they are still priced out of the home user's market. Networks of NeXTs on college campuses and in corporate America are where they are going to sell, so the 105 meg. drives won't be needed. -Mike