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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Looking for SCSI disks
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Date: 22 Sep 90 15:19:33 GMT
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In <9623@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Bill Thorson) writes:

>  This is a good thought.  If is is true that the basic 105Meg slab owners
>are licensed to own/use/have the rest of the software that has been stipped
>from the system, is is really cheaper to by a 3rd party external.  I read
>from other messages that the 340Meg option is ~$1600.   I will have
>ethernet access to NeXT machines that will have the full distribution so
>it would be east to get the software.  How much would it really cost to
>get an external 235Meg of disk to match the 340Meg option?  Is it cheaper?
>Can anyone list vendors and approximate prices?

Well, my roommate is a major Macophile, so you he knows about prices on
hard drives, and I've done some looking myself.  You can get 300+Meg
drives in the $1500-$2000 range easy I do believe.  Just go grab a Mac
magazine, say MacWorld, and start looking.  Or if you really want
selection, buy a copy of Computer Shopper.  It'll take you a day or two
to get thru it all, but you'll have an incredible selection, plan on a
weekend adventure.  Likewise, you can get SIMM memory for much cheaper
than NeXT (gosh, that's really *hard* to imagine).  Do some shopping!
That's what I plan to do.  Now if NeXT will just sell me a bare (no
memory) cpu/color boards, I'll be happy!

-k