Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Cheap color, HEY NeXT (was: GETTING A NEXT Message-ID: <1039@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 4 Feb 91 02:03:24 GMT References: <252u3744.665566130@fergvax> Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 47 (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >I've been hearing A LOT of complaints about the price of the >NeXTstation Color. I agree! They should be free upgrades for those who bought original cubes :-) > The color NeXT's are so expensive because of the monitors. > can you connect a cheap color monitor the the NeXTstation Color? I don't know for sure, but I do know the monitors are the same as those used on the 16" color SPARCs (Sony Trinitron, If I recall, painted black of course). (Whereas the monochrome monitor is built special for Next.) Thus I would bet any monitor compatible with a SPARC would work on the NeXT. Further, since the flood of cheap SPARC clones will hit the market this spring (one of the cheapest coming from a major monitor manufacturer, which is how they cut their price) I bet you could get a less expensive color SPARC monitor and use that on the NeXT. Or, next may realize this and contract for a cheaper monitor. By the way, our campus rep said something to me about NeXT changing the monitor on the color machines, and also offering a 21'' option. They will have a color on display here at UCLA tomorrow, BTW. >NeXT might want to consider the non-intuitive thing and sell >low-resolution color monitors. They might want to, but they can't. The legal agreement they signed with Apple says all NeXT monitors must be mega-pixel (to avoid infringing on the Mac market). > There are too many Ted Turners in the >world to overlook the low-end color market Hmmm...I bet Ted could afford a NeXTDimension :-) -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)