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From: leach@neptune.uucp (Tom Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT developers
Keywords: text retrieval, developers, who, what, when
Message-ID: <7853@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 88 01:37:54 GMT
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Reply-To: leach@neptune.OCE.ORST.EDU (Tom Leach)
Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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In article <801@auvax.UUCP> kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker) writes:
>
> Yo netland, and especially NeXT if they get this.  From the
>information that we have recieved we have managed to get very confused
>as to the ***exact*** initial costs to get into NeXT's.
>
>One story has that they cost ~$6,500 period.
>The other story is that you have to buy at least three plus hard disks
>plus laserprinter plus a service contract etc.
>
>
>We would really, ****REALLY*****, like to get the real story from
>someone who knows.
>
>Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, if so I obviously
>missed it.  Send e-mail.  No real reason for cluttering up the net.
>
>Thanks. Kevin
>-- 
>Kevin "Auric" Crocker @Athabasca University {alberta ncc}auvax!kevinc


The 'REAL' story is that it's up to each University to attach on
whatever kind of markup they feel they need, to be able to carry the
cube.  
NeXT 'strongly' recommends that you get the extra 330M drive.
I know you can get a cube without the drive (someone here is).  

The amount of equipment you buy, and if you get a service contract or
not, is entirely up to the folks you buy a cube from (the Univ, not NeXT)

The best things to do is go to a University that will be (or is thinking
about) carrying NeXT cubes, and see what they say.  

Tom Leach


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