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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation 2100 versus SPARCstation 1
Message-ID: <2414@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 04:13:17 GMT
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In article 
   <18816@mimsy.UUCP>, steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) writes:
> 
>    I don't remember the way the different purchase-time warranty options
> work.  I know that 'standard' pricing implies a one-year on-site warranty; I
> had thought that maybe 'list' pricing implied no warranty at all, or maybe a
> one-year return-to-factory warranty.....
> 
>    So what's the real scoop?
> 
  I didn't see the original posting.  But: the base DECStation 2100 is "adver-
  tised" to have a list price of $2100.  If one gets a formal quote from DEC
  (I have one in front of me), the "UNIT PRICE" will be listed as $8670.  Be-
  low, after all the model description verbiage, will be another line, called
  "Extended Warranty Option", together with the difference in price ($720, 
  which is equal to 8670-7950).

  In DEC's Brave New World, the one-year warranty is a return-to-wherever war-
  ranty; one pays extra (via the EWO) for on-site service.

  greg pavlov (unde borrowed account), FSTRF, Amherst, NY