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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Educational Discounting
Keywords: Considering that Atari is attempting to market a 68030 based, pricey
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Date: 11 Oct 90 09:42:30 GMT
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In article <316@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> galanter@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Philip Galanter) writes:
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>The NextStation at any price includes a license for _all_ NeXT bundled
>software.  The small disk version has 30+ MB _after_ various applications
>are already on the disk, such as WriteNow.  The NextStation _is_ upgradable

I agree that the configuration comes with some useful software, but you
still don't get the full software bundle.  You have to get the software
copied yourself, even if you do get the license.

>So for the frugal, the best bang for the buck is to buy a minimal
>NextStation, and then add 3rd party memory and disk drives, and then add
>the entire base of NeXT software.

Third party memory might be fairly easy, but I've yet to hear from someone
who has successfully attached a third party hard disk to a NeXT.  There
are some horror stories floating around about people who tried to attach
third party hard disks to cubes

il
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