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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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Date: 9 May 91 09:34:36 GMT
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Quoted from <1991May9.001717.22628@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

> >    Not in the context you were using, re competing with the "big boys".
> >    That definitely implied commercial viability. I don't think the NeXT

>   Does NeXT have any presence in the EnZed market?

    As themselves? No. Some marketroid company did bring in a pair of
    NeXTs recently, but without intending to sell them.

    I think there are more Iris workstations in this country than there
    are NeXTs.

    Yes, here's the article on the floor... under the picture of a
    NeXT placed next to a Wordperfect teddy bear...

    "DIANA BARRET, director of Auckland's Number One Software Company,
    shows off one of the first two NeXT computers brought into New
    Zealand. The machines have 400 megabytes of hard drive and 32Mb of
    RAM, a one million pixel screen that offers high-resolution colour.
    The list price is about US$10,000 (NZ$17,000) each but less highly
    configured machines are available for about US$5000. Those machines
    feature monochrome display, 8Mb RAM and 22Mb storage on the hard
    drive. Peter Macaulay, managing director of Number One, says he will
    not distribute the NeXT computer but may bring in equipment for
    interested individuals. He demonstrated Wordperfect 5.0 for NeXT
    at a trade show in Auckland last week."

    That's the 6th May 91 issue of a daily newspaper. Now if it's correct
    about these being the 1st two NeXTs in the country, then there are
    indeed more Personal Iris workstations here. Along with things like
    Suns, that RISC thing of IBM's, etc.

> Evan.
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