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- From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Keywords: sun, classic, sparc
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.230438.21819@reed.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:04:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov11.230438.21819
- References: <1992Nov11.071304.16768@tetrasoft.com>
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- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Nov11.071304.16768@tetrasoft.com> JGrace@TetraSoft.com (Joseph
- R. Grace) writes:
- > In article <yjp1lah@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- > writes:
- > > eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
- > > > The new Sun SPARCClassic (Tsunami based) offers 15" color and
- > > > a 200MB hard disk for $3995.
- > >
- > > It also can't be bought yet. Sun has made a big fanfare about products
- they
- > > won't be shipping until late winter/early spring. Ask NeXT about it's
- > > response when this machine is shipping.
- > >
- > > Also, try discussing this in some other newsgroup.
- >
- > Also, read the small writing in the advertisements --- it's $3995 in
- quantities
- > of 12! I don't know what the price is for just 1.
- >
- > Cheers,
- >
- > = Joe =
- > --
- > Joe Grace <JGrace@TetraSoft.com> (NeXTMail preferred.)
- > TetraSoft International Business and Personal Productivity Tools for
- > NeXTSTEP
-
- The price is $4295 (with the 15" color display and ~250MB hard drive
- display) for any quantity other than a multiple of 12. So, if you buy 15, it 12
- at $3995 and 3 at $4295. In addition, there will be no educational disounting.
- I hope NeXT never sinks to this level of marketing. However, it is a low price
- for the amount of power you get (I've heard around 25 SPEC89s, as compared to
- the $8,000 Turbo Color's paltry 14.6 [and it doesn't have the awful problems
- with disk acess that the NeXT does {did you see UNIX Review's review of the
- Turbo Color?}), though the Solaris user interface is awful (and it only runs
- version 2.1). I'd just like to see NeXT make a decision on its future, so that
- I can decide which system to go with (NeXT, Mac, Sun, IBM, or other).
-
-
- --
- Robert Seymour rseymour@reed.edu
- Departments of Physics and Philosophy
- Artificial Life Project Reed College
- Reed Solar Energy Project (SolTrain) Portland, OR
-