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From: m@jacobi.biology.yale.edu (mark mccallum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Yale Pricing
Message-ID: <485.270c8aac@venus.ycc.yale.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:29:15 GMT
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Just got Yale pricing for the Slab at 4k.
Next has been very unresponsive to our needs here and as a result they have
only sold seven cubes here to date (this supposedly explains high pricing).
And five of them were to us. I would think that a university regarded as
highly as Yale would draw more of an effort because of the number of future
decision makers it graduates. Although I love the machines I rate my personal
experiences with sales/service as very poor. If it wasn't for Stardent it would
be the worst in my 10 years of professional experience. I still haven't gotten
a return call from our sales rep after placing several calls on Sept 19th. 


If Next really wants to stand the industry on its collective ear they could
include source for all system software on systems sold with optical/cd-rom
drives. Next looked like they were going to try to redefine the industry when
they started, yet they look more and more like any other vendor every day.

I still might buy a slab if someone comes out with an affordable scsi optical
drive.

mark