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From: mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
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Date: 8 Feb 91 19:26:47 GMT
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In article <1991Feb5.220132.21422@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (The Ghost Who Walks) writes:
>peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Feb1.160317.27931@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> griffin@eecae.uucp (Danny Griffin) writes:
>>> Commodore will offer 2 models of the machine. The 3000UX-B, which retails
>>> for $5499, comes with 4 MB of fast RAM and a 100- MB hard drive. THe
>>> 3000UX-D, priced at $6999, comes with 8 MB of fast RAM and a 200-MB hard
>>> drive.
>
>>OK, everyone who was telling me "sure, it'll be priced to beat the NeXT"...
>>how are they gonna sell this sucker at this price point?
>
>  Ha ha ha...  Yeah, just what I was thinking Peter.  If you really
>want a laugh, you should have kept archives of all the A3000UX
>messages about two to three months ago...  Isn't it strange how all
>that pre-release "price" information was SO FAR OFF?  Remember the
>Byte article for "approx $4000"?
>

The NeXTstation with 68040, 100 meg drive, 8 megs RAM, 2.8 meg floppy drive
costs:  $3299 at the campus computer store.  This is the EDUCATIONAL price.
List price is $4995.

It's unfair to compare the NeXTstation with the 3000UX, but not because one
has an '040.  One is still vapor now.  I can go to the computer store today
and pick up a NeXTstation.  They have one in stock, and the color stations
are officially starting shipment next week.  When is the 3000UX going to be
available???

By the way, how fast is the 3000UX running X?  You can boot up a NeXT without
the windowing stuff.  It does things like 'ls' very fast.  Why don't you try
comparing this to an amiga?

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>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
>"I like you Bob, you've got balls."  - Lord Edmund Blackadder