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Article #33947Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.
From: L. Greg DeMichillie
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1988 04:27
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1988 04:27
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In article <383@eagle_snax.UUCP> mer@eagle_snax.UUCP (Meridith Lesly - Sun ECD TOPS) writes: >> Also on campus, even without a net, that just means that YOUR optifloppy, >> mine, and a NeXT have to share the same space for 5 minutes. With 8Mb of >> RAM, we won't even have to swap floppies often. > >Uhhhh...you can't remove the optical disk until you reboot. No disk swapping >at all! (And no copying either, of course, without a network connection.) Which of course means that a REAL NeXT system costs $8500, since NeXT only sells two hard disks. The "small" disk is 330MB and cost $2000. I haven't even looked at how much the 660MB drive is. ----- L. Greg DeMichillie "How much is a Jasmine hard disk *without* Apple Student Rep - UC Davis the keyboard?" lgdemichillie@ucdavis.edu - Weird computer customer question of AppleLink: ST0178 the week Disclaimer: If you've seen one disclaimer, you've seen them all.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb.ucdavis.edu!u545731798ea From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake. Message-ID: <3237@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 1 Nov 88 04:27:05 GMT References: <543@poseidon.ATT.COM> <383@eagle_snax.UUCP> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (L. Greg DeMichillie) Organization: UC Davis Lines: 18