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Article #2063Re: Stability of Next as a company
From: Matthias Zepf
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:12
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:12
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rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony) writes: : In article <HARDY.92Sep6231009@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: : >With the current DM/OS/USD ratios NeXTs in Europe should be outright : >bargains. Something is wrong if prices don't fall together with the : >Dollar! (Isn't that the purpose of keeping the dollar low? ). : 2) If dollar goes up: the price goes up by the same ratio : If dollar goes down: nothing happens except occasional special : offers. (Sorry for my bad English.) You are absolutly right. All the others, please do not forget: A simple NeXTstation (Mono, 25 MHz) still costs about 12,312.- DM (German Marks). At the current USD rate (1 USD = 1.4 DM) this is about 8,800.- USD!!! The US street price is 3,996.- USD. (German NeXT dealers offer 5% edu discount.) NeXT did not change the prices in any way due to the fallen USD rate. By the way ... the new upcoming Amiga 4000 (with 68040@25Mhz, "AA Chip Set" with 256 and more colors, four meg RAM, 50 meg hd) will cost about 4,000.- DM here in Germany. This is not a direct comparable system, but due to that price, the low-end NeXT should be sold at 6,000.- or max. 7,000.- DM (what compares very good with 4,000.- USD). Matthias -- ** Matthias Zepf, Riegelaeckerstrasse 27, 7250 Leonberg, Germany ** ** +49 7152 41917 Email: agnus@amylnd.stgt.sub.org (NeXTmail) **
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!nadia!amylnd!agnus From: agnus@amylnd.stgt.sub.org (Matthias Zepf) Subject: Re: Stability of Next as a company Message-ID: <1992Sep10.221240.28570@amylnd.stgt.sub.org> Organization: Agnus' new home, Leonberg/Warmbronn, Germany X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <1992Sep9.051855.17665@cs.brown.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:12:40 GMT Lines: 32