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From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 486/25 Power Platform for PS/2 70-A21
Keywords: Intel 80486, PS/2 70, AIX, cost
Message-ID: <4466@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 89 14:34:17 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
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} I can get both the PS/2-70 A21 and the 486/25 at substatial discount
} as a student.  Price becomes less of an issue...

Their prices are so high that even a "substantial" discount doesn't
cut it.  Check into a decent clone, of which there are many.

Compaq doesn't count.  They're way over-priced too.

} The 486/25 availible real soon now.  Not nessesarily so with the
} Compaq/Zenith/ATT hoard...

IBM simply invoked it's usual sleezy approach to marketing and pre-
announced.  Everyone else will sell one, cheaper, faster and better.

How many times do you have to see the cycle to believe it?

} Perhaps I want or need MCA (and there are some reasons why I might),
} and ATT/Compaq/Zenith don't have it...

If you've already bought into MCA then you're stuck.

If more people see through the pre-announcements and other endless
sleeze, and just say no, then maybe IBMs attempt to bring the world
back to propietary hardware standards (MCA) will die away.


Richard