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From: gerst@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: RE: NeXT without floptical is like summer without sunshine
Message-ID: <12062.2791bb7a@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 14:08:57 GMT
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>Subject: NeXT without floptical is like summer without sunshine
>From: shmuli@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Shmuel Browns)

>     In Issue #5 Buzzings, Dave Joerg reports on the NeXT pre-announcement of
>the high-end color workstation and says that "all NeXTs will be shipped with the
>20ms Canon floptical drives" - double the storage, read/writes both sides of the
>disk, even reads CD-ROMs, low price ($25)".   WHAT HAPPENED?!  It doesn't even
>look as if it's available as an optional extra.  Come on NeXT, of the 10 things
>we are going to see in the 1990s, are we down to 6 from NeXT?  Don't leave us
>in suspense....
>    Shmuel

  Rumors are great, aren't they? :)

  Maybe NeXT will start including higher capacity/faster optical drives when
  the rest of the market is ready for the current ones.  Considering the market
  is now at 2.88 meg floppies, I'd wait another decade :)

  As for the 10 things we are going to see in the 90's, I'd call NeXTDimension
  #7.  This board kicks some serious color butt.

  And look, 9 more years for 8,9,10. grin.

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