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In article <1229@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
| My only comment so far....if the thing has only ONE optical disk and NO
| other mass storage.  Isn't it going to be kind of hard to copy software or
| make backups?
| 
| Even with 8 meg in the machine...there is going to be a LOT of disk swapping
| to do if you want to make a duplicate copy of that 300 M optical disk!
| 
| Is there an option for a second optical drive per chance?

The NeXT box has two full-height 5.25" bays, one of which is taken up
by the 256M optical disk. You can buy another optical disk for $1495,
although because the optical disks are so slow (96-ms average seek
time) I suspect many will buy the SCSI hard drives (e.g. 670MB for $3995)
as their main drive.

By the way, the optical disks have 30% redundancy for error
correction which is why they only (!) hold 256M formatted. Tiny little
critters. 

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