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Lets look at your proposal.  NeXT could OEM the 128Meg optical disks
, though you just said that the 256 meg drives were coming on line.
The price, at the time they came out was around $2000 for the drives.
That means a base nextstation would have had to add somewhere between 
1500 and 2500 to the base cost.  Plus, the case would have been 
bigger, had more power and more cooling.  The 8/105 machine would
have ended up retailing for around $7000 instead of $5000.  Now, 
note that the floppy drive would have had to stay since it is the
primary software distribution medium.  Most of the complaining
on the net is over the desire for a cheaper product. With the
advent of 256M drives, rsn, Next would have had to support
2 media formats also.

It seems that NeXT , for the time being, decided that third parties
would better fill the removable media niche.  Whether that was a
good decision or not, is your own opinion.  

In article <Bx02IH.L9D@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) writes:
>I was just curious but at a meeting the other day at MOST Inc.
>I had the opportunity to ask why they didn't solicit NeXT as
>an OEM two years ago when they developed the first 128 3.5' read/write
>optical.  I was told that NeXT evaluated the unit and strongly 
>rejected it only no one seems to know exactly why.  Now, two
>years later the 128 Optical is catching on quite nicely while 
>the 256 meg Optical is slowly replacing it.  So one more time,
>why didn't NeXT move forward on technology that improves 
>on an idea that has allready been introduced to the NeXT community?
>Furthermore, why was the 128 optical rejected as an OEM consideration?
>
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