Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: They Are shipping in volume??? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 17:54:21 GMT References: <1991Jan10.225501.10174@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> <278E3748.18058@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca's message of 11 Jan 91 22:08:08 GMTLines: 37 In article <278E3748.18058@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesly A) writes: Here, here. It is _almost_ nice to here that I'm note the only one that is getting jerked around by next. Our university, along with a number of others, have combined to form an order of nexts worthy of the companies attention. It was supposed to be shipped on a Tuesday in November but still no show. This is getting to be a bit of a drag it would come in very handy in some of my soft. eng. courses. What really gets to me is that McGill (another Canadian university) has gotten what I believe is there full order of 63 machines so next can't very well try and blame the boarder for the delay. Next marketing methods seem to be a strange mix. Some people report excellent relations and others seem to be continuously screwed around and size of order doesn't seem to be the major factor (ie. McGills X-windows problems). I mean if you can't predict a capitalist who can you...:-) Please do remember that NeXT is not IBM or Apple. Those companies can ramp up and ship 25,000 machines in a week, if need be. Well, that's probably way conservative :-). NeXT, meanwhile, can hardly upgrade their manufacturing facilities when they'll soon be running out of backlog. If someone got 63 NextStations, I'm pretty sure that the rest of us are coming along, too. Also, remember that they are only shipping 105s (so far as I'm aware), so if you ordered a bunch of 340s (now 400s) or other larger systems, they will be a little slower. I think that we all realized about Novemember 14, when the first machines shipped, I believe, that our machines were not going to be there the 15th. Yes, it's taken 2 months, but from the sounds of it NeXT's only just lately started getting production '040, which they could hardly help. Of course, _I_ am waiting anxiously for my machine, too . . . -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "Buy `Sweat 'n wit '2 Live Crew'`, a new weight loss program by Richard Simmons . . ."