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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Advice on what to buy..
Message-ID: <6030@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 91 14:06:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.180633.26224@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <5988@uniol.UUCP> <1991Jun25.051301.15149@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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stickler@utrio.helsinki.fi (Patrick Stickler) writes:

>In article <5988@uniol.UUCP> Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes:
>>chris@castlab.engr.wisc.edu (Christian Rohrmeier) writes:
>>
>>>Hello all.
>>>Any words of davice???
>>
>>... 3rd party RAM (get 16MB!), a HDD (I use a wren6), ...
>>
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>Can you post where you got your 3rd party hardware and what might be the
>rough 'street price'?

I bought it at sinfoni, Bremen, FRG. Prices:
Wren6: 3000,- DM (~1680,- US$)
Case and power supply for the Wren6: 200,- DM
Archive Viper 150: 1400,- DM
4x9x4MBit (16MByte): 1600,- DM

I don't know prices in USA, probably cheaper, and I have no clue about
the prices in Helsinki... 

>I'm also seriously considering 'taking the plunge' but am quite convinced of
>the need for RAM and HD space - so I'd be *very* interested in *any* way of
>getting below the price of the 16/400 slab (which seems to be the absolute
>minimum functional configuration) -- a 8/105 slab with 3rd party hardware
>might just be the solution (*if* it's really cheaper and it works!).

It depends on how much effort you will take upon you. To install the
system took me about 2 days... and how much you know about Unix. Look
for some prices, then decide what drive suits you best and then ask
here for the disktab to use with this drive. (Better do this BEFORE you
buy the HDD...) With RAM the thing gets more compilcated, as all SIMMS
are supposed to work with the NeXT, but they don't. So make sure that
you can return them if they don't work...

				Ciao, Gerhard.

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