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From: dejesus@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Francisco Xavier Dejesus)
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 23:29:13 GMT
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In article <8999@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
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>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

    First of all: that was with the _CUBE_ configuration. Second: doesn't
that remark sound at all familiar? Think back 4-5 years ago: "The Atari ST
is just not expandable... you can't even plug in a 3rd party hard disk!".

    You gotta give it a chance. Steve Jobs is well known for making big
comebacks... made the Apple III, flopped, then success with the IIe. The
same story with the Lisa, the Mac's ill-fated predecessor. Now it is the
NeXT, the original cube was considered a nice idea but not all that well
implemented... too ambitious for the market, not to mention too expensive
(just like the Lisa!). Now he's coming back with a couple of improved
designs, and I for one will keep an open eye on the new NeXT systems...
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