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From: msf@rotary.Sun.COM (Michael Fischbein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 6 Feb 90 11:52:24 GMT
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In article <1990Feb6.060809.15101@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) writes:
> The last time I
>checked, (maybe it was about 2 mos. ago when we bought some
>sparcstations) the sparcs with a 19-inch mono display, two 80MB SCSI
>drives were over 10k. Sure you can crank through data at twice the
>speed at that price but where are you going to put it all?

Just for the record, the SparcStation doesn't use an 80MB disk; it
uses 104 MB disks.  I have no idea what NeXT's sell for; is the pricing
information off by 25% as well?

		mike

Michael Fischbein,  Technical Consultant, Sun Professional Services
Sun Albany, NY  518-783-9613  sunbow!msf or mfischbein@east.sun.com
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