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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: They Are shipping in volume???
Message-ID: <1055@earth.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 20:04:57 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.225501.10174@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> <278E3748.18058@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1991Jan23.164305.26963@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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In article <1991Jan23.164305.26963@eng.umd.edu> cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
>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,
>	No, you are not alone. I was told by NeXT that my upgrade kit 
>	should be send to me on Nov 1st 1990, and schoo's campus computer
>	store should notice me when they get the upgrade kit. The campus
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>	that so she had to take my phone # and name so to have someone
>	contact me. So far, I haven't got anythng yet, no reply, no 
>	upgrade kit, no nothing... I am TIRED of waiting.




I recently spoke with the staff at UT's Microcenter (NeXT reseller on
UT campus) and found that NeXT had finally given them a "firm"
delivery date on 040 upgrade boards.  They date given was APRIL!
By that time, my order will be six months old.

The moral of the story: No, you are REALLY not alone...




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John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas