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From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.
Message-ID: <3237@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 88 04:27:05 GMT
References: <543@poseidon.ATT.COM> <383@eagle_snax.UUCP>
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In article <383@eagle_snax.UUCP> mer@eagle_snax.UUCP (Meridith Lesly - Sun ECD TOPS) writes:
>> Also on campus, even without a net, that just means that YOUR optifloppy,
>> mine, and a NeXT have to share the same space for 5 minutes.  With 8Mb of
>> RAM, we won't even have to swap floppies often.
>
>Uhhhh...you can't remove the optical disk until you reboot.  No disk swapping
>at all! (And no copying either, of course, without a network connection.)

Which of course means that a REAL NeXT system costs $8500, since NeXT only 
sells two hard disks.  The "small" disk is 330MB and cost $2000.  I haven't
even looked at how much the 660MB drive is.

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