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From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How much $$ was your Cube?
Keywords: money, bucks, greenbacks, moolah, sheckels, fins, smackers
Message-ID: <5848@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 13:03:32 GMT
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In article <4997@tank.uchicago.edu> barry@daisy.UUCP (Barry Merriman) writes:
>In article <7360@microsoft.UUCP> t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman) writes:
>>
>>NeXT is not going to raise the price for anything, anytime.  Look what happened
>
>Not so---here at the University of Chicago, the Cube started out
>selling at $7195 several months ago (and currently, I think), already
>a 10% markup over the original $6500 figure.  
>

The extra $695 someone's markup.  The $6500 figure quoted excludes
university markup for costs of support, etc.


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