NeXT Color Monitors cost too much

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From: Darcy Brockbank
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:14

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In article <1992Aug20.171408.18255@talon.ucs.orst.edu> tpugh@oce.orst.edu (Tim  
Pugh) writes:
> In article <1992Aug17.031029.24849@tamsun.tamu.edu> steve@math.tamu.edu  
(Steve  
> Johnson) writes:
> > kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker) writes:
> > > I'm about to buy a color NeXTStation but cannot decide between the 2  
color
> > > monitors that NeXT offers...
> > 
> > I've been placed in front of both the 17" and 21". After about 10-15  
minutes,

The saddest thing about the monitors is that they are sub-standard quality,
and riduculously priced:

21" monitor, Canadian list: $4,395

After taxes: $5078 !!!!!!!!

I can buy two 486 computers WITH MONITORS for that much. 

What a rip.

- db

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I always thought that NeXTStep was very good in its approach to color since
the tasteless are protected from their own stupidity. -- Jason Breckenridge
(I know Jason, Jason is a close personal friend of mine, and I am not Jason!)

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