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From: sands@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Scott Sands)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Slab Prices
Summary: What's the poop on internal disks and memory for NextStations?
Keywords: NextStation, Internal Disk, Memory, Price
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.184154.5980@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 18:41:54 GMT
Sender: sands@csvaxe.csuohio.edu (Scott Sands)
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
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I'm ready to take the plung and buy a monochrome 
NextStation. However, I can't decide how big of 
a disk to buy. I would like to get a big enough
disk to keep the extended distirbution on line 
(and pre-loaded). But the price differential 
(with educational discount) between a 105 Meg 
machine and a 400 Meg machine appears to be 
significantly greater than the *retail* cost 
of adding a 330 Meg SCSI drive. 

Would I be loosing something by doing this? i.e.
is there something *wonderful* about the
internal 400 Meg drive? Is it difficult to *get*
the extended release if you buy a 105? Would the
external drive be significantly slower? 

Another thing: what about memory? The standard 
packages all contain 8 Meg. By starting with 
8 Meg am I limiting my upgrade paths? Should
I insist on a non-standard package?

Email me and I'll summarize.

-ss





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O. Scott Sands                             CSU Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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