Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!van-bc!questor!aberno From: aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Confidence? Me? Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 03:32:21 GMT Organization: Questor*Free Internet/Usenet*Vancouver*BC => +1 604 681.0670 Lines: 34 Well, here is another sorry chapter in the "Waiting for the NeXT" saga... but this one is a bit different. I ordered a 660 MB 030 cube + upgrade in December from the UBC bookstore. Well, it still isn't here. Now, I can understand delays in shipping the NextStations and the 040 upgrades, as there are only so many you can build in a day, beven if you have been blessed with the chips. However... My machine should have been made ages ago! In fact, the UBC bookstore has some machines (330 MB) *in stock*, but cannot sell them (not for C$13,000 anyway!) and has to return them to NeXT to be "repackaged". These machines have been sitting in the stockroom for MONTHS, while my desk sits empty. If NeXT can't get a machine from Vancouver to their factory and back again, with a new hard disk, in over two months, I really wonder what's going on. I mean, the UBC bookstore hasn't even received the documents needed to send these things back! I left the campus today with grave reservations (for the first time, I might add) about NeXT's ability to cope in the world. I mean, when Apple has to apologize profusely for a "large" backlog of orders (2 weeks) on machines that are not even built, this is making NeXT look pretty bad. Are there any NeXT people out there? Tell me you aren't beating the wolves from the door, and tell me where my computer is, please! I have work to get done, and I'm getting desperate! --- Anthony Berno (aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca) The Questor Project: Free Public Access to Usenet News in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at +1 604 681-0670