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From: eric@brewmaster.bnr.ca (Eric Brunelle)
Subject: Re: ideal NeXT system
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 91 19:32:20 GMT

In article <7799@umd5.umd.edu>, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
|> Well, gee... A NeXTcube is, what, $5,000?  NeXTDimension another, what,
|> $3,000?  Printer at $2,000 (these are all safe estimates, methinks), that's
|> $10,000.  Add a 1.2G drive, what, $4,000?  Extra memory... well, you can get
|> an awful lot for $6,000.  Since 4M SIMMs can be had for $200 a piece...
|> 
|> Oh, can't forget the 040 upgrade, for another $2,000?  So you have $4,000 to
|> buy 20 4M SIMMs.  And stuff them in 16 SIMM slots....

I thought the cube now came with the 040, no need to upgrade, no?  Also,
can the cube really use all that RAM (88MB)?  Maybe I would trade part
of this RAM for more disk space, if any kind of image or sound processing
is envisaged (otherwise, 1.2GB is well enough, of course).  What's the
maximum disk capacity of a cube?

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  Eric Brunelle                     |     "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau
                                    |      de croire a la lumiere"
  eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.ca      |         -- Rostand, Chantecler
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