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Re: NeXT dimension prices

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From: Stefano Pagiola
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:06
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Fredrik Nyman writes
> ...  figure about $2,000
> for a good monitor.  Sure, the 17" Philips monitor NeXT sells is
> only about $1,000, BUT it's so bad you're best off getting either
> the big NeXT color monitor (21" Sony, I think) or a third-party
> monitor that can handle the NeXTdimension's video output: 61 KHz
> horizontal scan  rate; 68 Hz vertical scan rate, 1280x1024
> resolution.  

NeXT is discontinuing their original 17" color monitor (which they've  
been referring to as the 'Fimi' monitor) and standardizing on the  
Sony 17" that they introduced last month.

Has anybody received a system with the 17" Sony?  Reports would be  
appreciated.

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Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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