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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Announcement vs reality
Summary: Great stuff!
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Message-ID: <7574@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 19 Nov 88 09:10:40 GMT
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In article <7400@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> leach@neptune.UUCP (Tom Leach) writes:

>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:-)

I think the correct price would be $8500 ($6500 for base unit and $2000 for
the 330M drive). 

I too attended the Jobs demonstration at Berkeley last night and was 
impressed by his knowledge of his product and willingness to interact
with the public. In fact, he took a tour around the undergraduate
facilities after the presentation and I was able to obtain an autograph,
as well as talk to him. All I can say is what a dude! 

The West Coast sales manager also mentioned that Berkeley first order
would be arriving in mid-January... Personally, I'm waiting for release
1.0 of software before I make a commitment, even though Jobs said that
software upgrades would be free or at cost. Jobs also mentioned an existing
problem with the scheduling in Mach that places sound at a lower processor
priority than the display causing interrupted music when display intensive
processes where in use...

Last point of fact, I saw Woz here at the bonfire rally tonight!

			Go Bears! Beat Stanfurd!

			Ron Woan
			senior desperately saving money for a new computer...