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From: aerostr@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (W. Graham Elliott)
Subject: Considering a NeXT purchase -- Questions.
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.042148.24780@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 04:21:48 GMT

A colleague of mine is considering the purchase on a NeXT Slab, and
he has the following few questions which he asked me to post.

    1)  Does anyone have any good/bad experience adding a 3rd party
        external Fujitsu 670 Mb formatted SCSI drive?

    2)  Also, any experience with a 3rd party Archive 150 Mb quick 
        format 1/4" tape drive?

    3)  Is 8 Megabytes of RAM on the NeXT sufficient for most applications
        (including X), or is 16 Mb a "practical" minimum?

    4)  Any "do"s or "don't"s that should be considered in the puchase 
        (we are looking for sage advice, here.)

Please email responses to me.  I will post a summary if there is sufficient
response, and interest.

Thank-you, in advance.

Graham.


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Graham Elliott                      aerostr@bullet.ecf.utoronto.ca 
Institute for Aerospace Studies     graham.elliott@canrem.UUCP
University of Toronto, Canada