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Article #33335Re: the price of the NeXT machine (was Re: NeXT)
From: Jim Budler
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 03:04
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 03:04
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In article <3254@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>In article <wXJwLsy00Uka8226gj@andrew.cmu.edu>, bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
>> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>> > of his promise 3 years ago was he would deliver a great workstation for
>> > $5000 *retail*.
> first, what's this talk about a *PROMISE* ?! it was a goal
> (at best) or hype (probably closer to the truth), and I still
The word promise means many things, including a person standing up
and saying I 'will' ...
To be called a promise does NOT mean the person has to stand up and
say 'I promise...'.
Enough about a word.
I always thought it was media hype, and I feel I was proven right
by the way the media freely compared a $6500 University price machine
to several $10-20K *retail* priced machines.
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uucp: {decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim Jim Budler
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!gould!steinmetz!uunet!eda!jim From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: the price of the NeXT machine (was Re: NeXT) Message-ID: <246@eda.com> Date: 17 Oct 88 03:04:06 GMT References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <wXJwLsy00Uka8226gj@andrew.cmu.edu> <3254@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: jim@.eda.com (Jim Budler) Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA Lines: 27