Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!mikel From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: They Are shipping in volume??? Message-ID: <48186@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 16 Jan 91 23:26:46 GMT References: <2793C695.9650@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <48173@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 35 In article smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes: > > mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes: > >>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. > >Just out of (probably general) curiosity, when did you order your >upgrade? We were moved to the Jan. 31st date in mid November last >year. Have not heard anything about another push-back. Our first >ship date was supposed to be October 15 at the latest. Ha! >Our district sales folks keep saying "we are still on allocation >for the upgrades" and "we have asked for priority but . . .". Like >I told them, it seems the company has put the long-time users on the >back burner- In fact I wonder if we didn't get pushed off the stove. >I suppose this means NeXT will be around for a few more years, but >it has really put the bite on some of our plans here. Maybe we'll get >NeXTstep2.1 when the upgrades finally make it. ;-) >-Bill >-- > __________________Prof. William V. Smith____________________ >EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw >SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) >NeXTmail: smithw@mathnx.math.byu.edu >Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800 I placed my upgrade order in December. I ordered the blank optical disks on November 9th. I'm trying hard to be patient and forgiving, because I really do love the company and the machines. No; wait; I'm trying hard to be patient because I love the company. I'm suffering severe impatience because I love the machine. There. That's accurate.