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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga vs NeXT
Keywords: Decisions, decisions!!!
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Date: 31 Oct 90 20:53:24 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.192547.23318@cs.rochester.edu> garrett@cs.rochester.edu (Bill Garrett) writes:
>- 300 meg hard drive to make the NeXt machine really fun to use.  Once
>you get the extra hard drive (and pay the extra money, NeXt wants over
>$1000 for the bigger harddrive) the only way to get the rest of the system
>is through NeXt.

Our campus rep suggested you hang on to the smaller drive and hook up
an external one in a shoebox, to get two drives.  The price for NeXT's
drive is a little unreasonable, but you've always got the external
SCSI port!

>optical disk drives.  So you need to be connected somehow to someone who
>does or buy one.  We wanted to connect the NeXtstation to a network of
>sparc-stations in the lab.  After all the Next has standard ethernet.  
>Welllll the NextStation has standard thin-wire ethernet.  The suns here
>use thick wire ethernet.  Quick call to next, what should we do, Next's
>answer "Buy a transceiver", "great how much", "oh, about $1000".  Okay

The rep has his own NeXT, and sez you can come hook your machine up to
his and copy the stuff over.

$1000 is a rip-off price for a transceiver.  You can get them for much
less than this.

					-Dan

             Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.