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From: rantapaa@cs.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: $1000 68040-NeXT (was Re: NEXT and the 68040?)
Summary: Heard it on the grapevine...
Keywords: 68040, low-cost NeXT
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Date: 11 Mar 90 02:41:25 GMT
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I heard from a reliable source that NeXT is planning to come out with a
68040 version of the cube for around a thousand bucks.  Apparently they
have got manufacturing costs low enough with their automated factory so
that they can stamp them out for a fraction of that price.  I'm not
sure what you'll get, but even a bare cube with 1M memory and OD would
be very attractive.  Has anyone heard anything about this?


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Erik Rantapaa
  rantapaa@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu