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From: bwdavies@rodan.acs.syr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How to make a NeXTstation Color drive a monochrome/grayscale monitor?
Summary: NeXT protecting sales?
Keywords: prices
Message-ID: <1991May26.185511.25605@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 26 May 91 18:55:11 GMT
References: <1991May22.082130.19581@share.UUCP> <16210@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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In article <16210@darkstar.ucsc.edu> isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell) writes:
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>In article <1991May22.082130.19581@share.UUCP> you write:
>[advantages of purchasing a NeXTstation Color computer with MegaPixel grayscale
>monitor deleted}
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>As of the Spring 1991 List Prices catalog, the price differential between a
>NeXTstation and NeXTstation Color computer (pizza box without monitor,
>keyboard, etc.) has increased by $1,000 to $1,875 and the 17" MegaPixel Color
>monitor has decreased by $1,000, so the total price of a complete NeXTstation
>Color has remained unchanged.  So this price restructuring makes purchasing a
>3rd-party color monitor or running a MegaPixel grayscale monitor on a
>NeXTstation Color pizza box less attractive by $1,000.  I guess the
>manufacturing cost differential between the grayscale and color CPU boards is
>greater than NeXT thought.

To be a little less charitable, when I first heard about these price changes
I immediately assumed that NeXT had noticed people ordering NeXTstation Color
machines with the Sound Box and startup kit, and no monitor, and decided to
adjust the prices to make buying a third-party monitor a much less attractive
option.

(This is basically what I was planning on doing.)

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