Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: James Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Sun Apr 21 21:23:41 2002

The Next time you find a NeXT Cube for $10.00 call me and I'll take it.

James

Richard Erlacher wrote:

>Perhaps, but why would one have wanted one of them back then? In fact, why
>would one want one now?
>
>BTW, when the NEXT boxes first came out, we had a few of them sitting around
>for people to look at and play with. I personally was not impressed. They
>were EXTREMELY low on gigaflops per picobuck and, aside from the OS, I don't
>remember any applications that didn't have the same look and feel as a small
>mono-MAC costing ~1/10 as much.
>
>The problem with these machines, as borne out by the market, is that they
>weren't what the home user wanted. They weren't what I wanted either. I
>recently saw a NEXT cube for sale in a thrift store complete with its original
>(Black) laser printer for $10 for the whole shootin'match, and it was running.
>AFAIK, nobody bought it. I haven't been back to see whether it's sold yet,
>but it's been a couple of weeks. The laser printer had been there a week or
>two longer.
>
>Dick
>
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 21:23:41 BST