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From: masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXTWorld
Message-ID: <5733@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Apr 91 13:05:36 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.005525.2690@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Apr26.111453.6133@cc.helsinki.fi>
Reply-To: masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Masaru Sugai)
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In article <1991Apr26.111453.6133@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>In article <1991Apr25.005525.2690@ariel.unm.edu>, nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>> just eaten.  It tried to project an image of power and strenth but will
>> probably only appeal to people with strong S&M tendencies.  It was overall
>> very depressing and will scare all but the hardcore sadists away.

Anybody could become a full-fledged masochist tortured by unreliable shipment
date.

>Oh, didn't you know that all NeXT buyers have to pass a three-day
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>S&M-test before they get their machines? In that that test, we have to
>wear a black PVC suit and perform some most interesting tasks. :-)

Now I can appreciate any shipment delay or even vaporware after three-
*month* test. BTW, do you happen to know when I can get 2.0 ROM and 
toaster for my A3000 ? :)

-- 
-- Masaru Sugai:Use disclaimer. CIS 72050,2141:NeXT + A3000 = money-eater
NEC Corporation:sugai@ccs.mt.nec.co.jp DORMANT:hardwired logic,machine language
MIT R.Affiliate:masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu:  "Silicon on Sapphire" by CLASH