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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Selling through Businessland
Summary: Buying NeXT boxes in small quantities
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Date: 31 Mar 89 15:47:44 GMT
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I spoke with Mike Potopinski at a computer dog-'n-pony show at
Akron U yesterday (3/30/89).  Since we are a small campus there
isn't any way that we can commit the usual 5 year support and
people+machines that NeXT wants, but we would like to develop some
hypermedia CAI software for NeXT boxes.  I related the above to
Mike, who said that he thought we ought to be able to buy just a
few cubes.  He refered me to Deac Manroth, whom I haven't had a
chance to contact yet.

He also mentioned that in the PM, NeXT would be making some
announcement.  It was 1100 here, so it would have only been 0800 in
California.  I presume it was going to be the official notification
of the Businessland deal.

If I hear anything interesting, I'll post a follow-up.

By the way, I agree with the other comments here, that if I were to
buy a cube, I'd definitely get a SCSI drive for it.  The O-D is
noticably slow booting up, and the delay loading big applications
is noticable.


Bill