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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: marketing (was: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include Lotus Improv)
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Date: 19 Oct 90 14:39:30 GMT
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In <1990Oct19.135753.21624@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov> alandail@applelink.apple.com (Alan Dail) writes:

>Also, I still think 3rd party products are expensive compaired to Macintosh.  
>This is especially suprising since Interface Builder cuts development time 
>in half. Here are some examples from the fall catalog.

>cube floppy 1.4  $795 (and I though Apple charged a lot for a floppy disk)

Uh, not to flame you, but there are 4 (?) floppy drives at LEAST in
the catalog.  This is one of the more expensive.  The PLI 2.88MB drive
(I think this is probably the same one NeXT uses, or at least it does
the same) is $495 I do believe.  Still, a bit expensive, but you are
getting more than the other at least, and more capacity than Apple
drives too.  I just wish the darn thing, and NeXT's drive, would
read/write Apple formatted disks too!

>FORTRAN $995

You should checked out COBOL!  ~$2000

-k