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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.182822.11646@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 19:26:39 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.052446.9290@agate.berkeley.edu>, knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes...
 
>I wrote:
>>>So why buy a Mac IIsi, Mac II, Mac IIci, Mac SE/30 et al, since you
>>>could buy a NeXT for about the same price or MUCH cheaper in some
>>>cases
> 
>jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (Quaestor) writes:
>>    BUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZ!!!  Thank you for playing
>>  I think you should come down from your NeXT superiority complex with
>>the facts 
>>  WE ALL KNOW that one (at a Univ) can acquire a IIsi for $3000 and a
>>SE/30 for $2500
> 
>Excuse me.  Buy a NeXT from your very own school.  It'll cost you $2995.  Yes,
>the U. of Arizona is selling the NeXTstation for $2995.  I would say that
>this is "about the same price" as a Mac IIsi and the $2500 SE/30.  As
>for hardware, performance, and features, the NeXT blows both machines
>away.



I know I've seen ads in the New York Times for IIsi's which were under $3000. 
So that's at least $2000 price difference between that and the $5000
NextStation price.

Robert

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