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Article #34738Re: NeXT HD prices (was:NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.)
From: Chris Borton
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1988 12:41
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1988 12:41
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In article <17823@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lange@cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
> Has anybody else taken notice of this? A 330MB hard disk for only $2000!
>
> I haven't seen anything sold for the Mac come even close to this! In
> the ads that I've seen, the cheapest 3rd party hard disks holding close
> to 330MB cost at least twice as much!
>
> Just more price gouging on the Mac front, as usual?
The Wall Street Journal article also pointed out that many suppliers were
falling over each other to offer NeXT incredible deals in order to use their
equipment. This included Tenadem disk drives at ~50% of normal, I believe.
-cbb
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT HD prices (was:NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.) Message-ID: <573@uva.UUCP> Date: 22 Nov 88 12:41:23 GMT References: <543@poseidon.ATT.COM> <383@eagle_snax.UUCP> <3237@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <17823@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1064@hydra.riacs.edu> Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 21