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From: leach@neptune.uucp (Tom Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Announcement vs reality
Keywords: Next
Message-ID: <7400@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 88 18:09:13 GMT
References: <17846@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
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Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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In article <17846@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes:
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>1.  The minimum configuration costs $9500 after deep educational discounts 
>    including a contractual guarantee that the buying institution will provide 
>    support.
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>					John Nagle

John, (and the rest of the net) I have seen a lot of references to a
base price of $9500.  This is a 'suggested' configuration of the cube
and a 330M drive.  I asked our rep about this and he said that they
encourage this configuration, but they would sell a cube alone if you
didn't mind it being slow.  (I know this to be true)
You might prod your rep a bit since it sounds like your rep and not NeXT
is making this decision (or else our rep is doing some no-no's:-)

Tom



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