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Article #61Re: Is the cube a white elephant?
From: Robert Lutwak
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 16:14
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 16:14
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In article <1992Oct29.084638.17149@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes: > In article <Oct29.043330.30119@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Nate Sammons <ns111310@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu> writes: -Discussion we've all had too many times to repeat- > The very real disappointment is the ND. It would at this point be nice for > NeXT to have an inexpensive 16 bit colour upgrade for Cube owners, or better > still to just lower the price of the ND:) In any case, soon people will be > selling ND's and some of us are waiting. > > Unfortunately, I think that all of the ND's are probably going to stay with their cubes. As all of our cubes continue to decrease in resale value, nobody will want to downgrade their "unique" cube by selling off its ND, without embracing the opportunity to unload the cube at the same time (and buy an NSC or NBC or whatever). I fear that us cube owners are going down with the cube. > The worrry that NeXt has to have is that every time someone moves up from a station > they are really looking at the whole market, and there's a (small) chance of > them jumping ship. > Right on. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory MIT Workspace Error 1000
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!news From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak) Subject: Re: Is the cube a white elephant? Message-ID: <1992Oct29.161402.28456@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: argon.mit.edu Reply-To: robert@amo.mit.edu Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology References: <1992Oct29.084638.17149@utstat.uucp> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 16:14:02 GMT Lines: 38