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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Who's Driving Out There, Anyway? (was 2.1 Update: Archive site)
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.073231.10072@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 07:32:31 GMT
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Jess Anderson flames:
>> 60 days ago.  Now NeXT is about to nick me for their sins of
>> omission and commission by charging me (and can it really be
>> $50?) for an upgrade to expiate those sins?  Excuse me?

NeXT claims that the $50 is "just the cost of the media".  Of course,
they're using media that's overpriced by about a factor of eight.
This would all be much less of a problem if they would sell it on
1.44M floppies for $10 or less, which they could.  I doubt most
people would complain about the price then.

But, I suspect NeXT has some other weird policy that they *have* to
use 2.88M floppies since that's supposed to be a selling point of
their machines.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu