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From: droid@mcrware.UUCP (Andy Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Summary: Commercial prices may be higher
Message-ID: <755@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 21:01:20 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <17479@gatech.edu>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <17479@gatech.edu>, ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried III) writes:
> >Jobs announced the following prices (apparently education prices):
> >
> >	NeXT computer:           $6500
> >	NeXT PostScript Printer: $2000
> >	330 MB winchester disk:  $2000
> >	660 MB winchester disk:  $4000
> 
> 	Who do I give my cheque to...? (notice, no smiley face)
Not so fast there: According to the local newspaper (Des Moines Register)
The prices announced at the introduction were "University" prices.
The prices for regular folks, "Commercial" prices for a NeXT box will be
around $10,000.  While this is still more for less than anybody else has,
(see Thursday's Wall Street Journal), and is the only thing I know of with
*Real* DSP capability (Amiga comes close, but not quite), it is more than
a new car costs.  I still want one, but I think $10,000 is out of the range
of any concept of a personal (Home) computer, no matter how sophisticated
the user.  It would especially annoy me to think that a college student
could purchase one of these but I could not.  If said college student could
get come up with $6500 in the first place ;-).

Andy Nicholson, Microware Systems Corp.
The company policy manual says that I do not speak for the company, so
these must be my opinions, not theirs.