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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 14-Oct-92 Re: Ethernet?
Eric P. Scott@futon.SFSU (3970)

> [ munch ]
>NeXT doesn't give a shit about students.  NeXT wants to sell to
>people with *money*--students are assumed to be disqualified
>unless they can prove otherwise--in which case, they're probably
>not complaining, anyway.  Students also tend to be looking for
>"home computers"--NeXT isn't in the business of selling "home
>computers"--they're not FCC certified for use as home computers,
>and priced such that the FCC won't administratively declare them
>intended for residential use.

I agree with most of this article, except for this.  NeXT's student
prices (the educational discount) are as good as you can get.  I don't
believe that there's a cheaper way of purchasing a NeXT than through
higher education.

Why does NeXT have the campus consultant program?  Because it gets the
people who need workstations (comp sci, engineers, graphic design
majors, etc) interested in NeXT's machines.  They are the group that
will be writing or using the newest and hottest programs and starting up
their own companies after they graduate.  And if they've been happy with
NeXTs in the college environment, they'll be a lot more likely to
purchase, or recommend purchasing, machines from NeXT.

This also gives NeXT a chance to hire students in a low-risk position
and see how they perform.  They can determine who they should make
permenant job offers to.  Also, these campus consultants tend to be in a
position to see the cutting edge of computers, and provide NeXT with
feedback about what's the state-of-the-art.

Finally, the FCC issue has already been discussed earlier...I'm not
concerned about using a class A device at home, and neither are most of
the people I know of that have NeXT machines.

All IMHO,

-Chuck



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