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From: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New lower-priced NeXTcube
Keywords: NeXT, NeXTcube
Message-ID: <8847@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 16:18:01 GMT
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In article <8903@helios.TAMU.EDU> daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
>New offer - 68030 now, 68040 upgrade when available, 8 MB RAM, 2.88 MB 
>***EXTERNAL*** floppy, 330 MB HD, ***OPTICAL DRIVE*** - $9,995 list ($10,995
>with 660 MB HD).
>Bottom line: buy 8 MB more RAM (< $500 third-party) and NeXT will pay you $1000
>***AND A FREE OPTICAL DRIVE*** to buy a system of equivalent power (and you can

	All I can say is that I think I am going to **CRY** :-( I paid $7200+
	for a BASIC 030 cube just 2 months ago... and $1100 for 320 mb drive
	few weeks ago...	^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Now I have less than $200 to go throu the entire semester... some
	how I feel I've been mugged.

	Can NeXT do something to people like us who "unfortunately" 
	bought our 030 NeXT right before new announcement?
cyliao@wam.umd.edu     		o NeXT :  I put main frame power on two chips.
      @epsl.umd.edu		o people: We put main flame power on two guys.
      @bagend.eng.umd.edu       o ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
 xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx.xxx (reserved)	o RC + Apple // + Classic Music + NeXT = cyliao