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From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: They Are shipping in volume???
Message-ID: <48173@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 21:14:17 GMT
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In article <2793C695.9650@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesly     A) writes:
>Since my comments on Next not sending us our machines they have arived in
>abundence. We were to get only 2 slabs , mine being number, but they sent
>what I beleive to be our full order of 10. Just thought I should post this
>after my last note . fare is fare :-) hope OSU has seen theirs the waiting
>can be hell when it seems you are the last to get going on the new machines.
>
>Andrew

Well, my contact at Businessland just informed me that I am not going
to receive my '040 upgrade until March 31st. Aaarrgghh!!! Originally
I was told that I would receive it January 4th. Then it was rescheduled
to arrive January 31st. Now they've moved the ETA TWO MONTHS to
March 31. Wow, that hurts.

On the bright side, I suppose that means that NeXT is selling a lot
of machines. That is, if availability is so bad that my receiving
date has been pushed back two months, that must mean that supply
is tightly constricted, which presumably means that NeXT is taking
orders faster than it can ship them. This means to me that sales
are good, and NeXT will survive. That's the good news.

The bad news, of course, is that I have to wait an AEON for my
upgrade to arrive. Still, I suppose that I am better off, since I
have a cube now, than someone who has to wait that long for their
first machine.

Additional bad news is that I have to wait for my order of spare
ODs as well; there is a "worldwide shortage" of NeXT ODs. Sounds
like the new machines have changed NeXT's sales picture for the
better.