28 Jul
2001
28 Jul
'01
9:50 p.m.
NeXT shipped *A LOT* of machines, man. Now,
granted, nearly none of
them went into households, but they installed (by practically giving
them away) huge numbers of them in american colleges, and a large
nameless US Gov't agency bought a VERY LARGE number of them.
Most accounts I've seen place the total number of NeXT
machines made during the whole run at about 50,000. I do know that
the first NeXT I bought was surplus from the Naval Research Lab and
it wasn't but about 3 years old and it had already been sitting
around a bit when it was surplussed and put up for sale down in
Patuxent River.
I'm definitely not trying to be a NeXT-tribesman
here...but NeXT's
products, and their relative success & failure, are some of the most
misunderstood things in the workstation industry.
Care to enlighten us a bit? <g>
Jeff
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