Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!fernwood!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 May 91 11:53:29 GMT References: <1991May3.200546.16303@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 28 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > The current NeXTstation(slab only) costs ~$2500 with the educational > discount. If I hear "educational discount" prices for the NeXT once more I'm going to scream. I shall go stark raving mad and I shall take you with me. We will be very happy together in a rubber room. Compare list price or nothing: even most students can't get that damn educational discount. Too few universities provide it. It's probably easier to get an Amiga developer's price! And most people who can afford a cube aren't students. Would you consider quoting $1875 as the price of the 3000 fair? That's what it costs right now. $200 less than I paid under the developer's program, I admit, but there you have it. And you don't have to pay outrageous multi-user UNIX prices for software. I've got the NeXT product catalog. Those product prices are completely out of the question for mortals. > Any of you guys watch Star Trek the NeXT Generation? Yeh, we're wondering why Picard hasn't sued the tits off the contractor who designed the holodeck. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .