Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!dwn2 From: DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Who's Driving Out There, Anyway? (was 2.1 Update: Archive site) Message-ID: <91115.070412DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 11:04:12 GMT References: <562@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1991Apr25.034409.13565@macc.wisc.edu> <1991Apr25.073231.10072@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 31 In article <1991Apr25.073231.10072@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) says: >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. >Mark Adler >madler@pooh.caltech.edu Yes, and if NeXT would make these disks readable in MSDOS format so that those of us without floppy drives (remember us - 030 cube owners?) could at least kermit them over from a PC, I'd be a happy camper! If Franz and others releasing upgrades would follow the same advise, it would make things much easier on us. Heck, I'd even be willing to send NeXT an OD to put the stuff on, but fear, given their track record for promptness, I wouldn't see the disk until Christmas. Dave +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Dave Norton o e-mail to dwn2@psuvm.psu.edu + + Computational Solid Mechanics \ - + + Penn State University ()/ () % Engineering Visualization % + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+