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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation 2100 versus SPARCstation 1
Message-ID: <1989Jul31.121859.13565@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 89 12:18:59 GMT
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From article <2414@canisius.UUCP>, by elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie):
>   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

The 2100 most assuredly does not have a list price of $2100. The base price
of the system (for a 15" monochrome, 8M, etc) is $7950, which gives your
1 year return to DEC warranty. The price goes up from there...

art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u


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Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U