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From: brian@umbc4.umbc.edu (Brian Cuthie)
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Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 20:05:25 GMT
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In article <lh5H?zbu@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
(greatly abreviated)
>
>Here we have a lab of six NeXTs(all 040's, 5 with 8MB of RAM, 1 server
>with 16MB).  The general attitude though is that NeXT isn't going to
>survive.  It definitely seems to be an uphill battle.  Yesterday a
>faculty member walked into our Microcomputer Order Center and they
>told him that it would be 6-8 months before he would receive his
>machine.  This definitely discouraged him(who wouldn't be?).  Have
>-Mike

Here at the great U of M, they actually stock the 105 meg version.  This
is great since it's the best deal going anyway.  If you order the 400 meg
slab, it is said to take 8 - 10 weeks.  I too believe that if anything
will be responsible for their demise, it will be shipping delays.  After
all, NeXT must realize that people are taking a risk when buying their
machines (obviously they know this, that's why the price is so low). 
People are much less likely to take the risk of ordering a machine from
a company that can't ship it for 3-4 months.  Hell, they could be
out of business by then! :-)

-brian