Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Confidence? Me? Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 02:48:46 GMT References: Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 15 Feb 91 03:32:21 GMT aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes: >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. This is typical of a quite a number of folks. I understand that the company is building NeXTstations as fast as they can and are still only catching up very slowly with the backlog. Orders seem to have settled down to about 2500+ stations per month, but with initial delays they are really having trouble keeping up at present. The cube situation is even worse in a sense because it has a much lower priority. Inventory accounting is a real weak point partly on purpose, because they just don't have the ability to deal with it right now in terms of shipping. Additional pressure to build color NeXTstations plus problems with NeXTdimension have added to the problem, which won't go away soon. Nevertheless, they are putting out quite a few machines every week. It is always a good idea to keep in touch with people at NeXT about your order. There is the occasional screwup. Generally they have been very responsive about such things. -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