Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac,att!bu.edu!wang!ice From: ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: MaNeXTWorld Prices && a Couple of Questions Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 18:46:38 GMT References: <2869@sparko.gwu.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 26 biby@seas.gwu.edu (Rich Biby) writes: >Okay, I've thought about it. I had a SUN 3/60 a home. Nice, but no word >processors. I had a Macintosh at home, but no UNIX. I've had a PC >at home, but no UNIX, and no nice windowing enviroment. Sounds like >I'm a natural for a NeXT. >I want the FULL OS, and thus the $3,200 deal won't do it. Add the printer >and enough disk to make the system usable, and I figure it is $5k. >That is too much for me. (I'd almost have to go with a Mac LC. Bumber!) >Anybody know if NeXT is going to change their offer any time soon? >Should I just close my eyes and give my credit card numbers? Is it possible >to get the slab without any disk and put one in yourself? Anyone done this? Get the $3,200 slab w/ 105 MB disk. Use the 105 MB disk for basic OS and swap. Export some SUN disk to the NeXT and put the extended OS there. No problems whatsoever. >Another question -- If you got a slab, then you go the right to the >operating system? Right? So, could I get the operating system from >someone on 1/2" tape and load the sucker up over my SUN network, and not >have to bother with floppies? No problems at all with that. -- Fredrik Nyman [NeXT: ice@red-zinger.wang.COM] Global Adaptation Center BITNET: , Wang Laboratories, Inc., M/S 019-490, One Industrial Ave., Lowell MA 01851, USA