Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: PRICES Message-ID: <3360012@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 01:02:51 GMT References: <3928@orbit.cts.com> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 31 / reichard@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Kevin Reichard) / 4:27 am Jan 30, 1991 / $ simpson@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Simpson David Grant) writes: $ > $ > A friend of mine recently bought a 386 from a computer dealer $ >in Maryland. The dealer told him that prices of electronic $ >equipment will soon be going up because of the war in the $ >Persian Gulf (the Defense Deparment is buying lots of chips) $ >and so PC prices will be going up as a result. $ $ Um, the Defense Department doesn't buy chips. The services are buying $ directly--a $21 million buy from Compuadd, a $1 million buy from CPT, etc. $ Methinks the dealer was pushing some hooey to push a sale; there are no $ indications that prices will be going up. $ I fact, in my 2 cents' worth of opinion, I believe price will be going down :-). For one, soon Intel will not have monopoly of 386 chips. The Gulf War and the existing economic trend will cause many companies to have cash flow problem --- which usually means a fire sale to follow. Almost pure speculation ..... So when will we get a 486 for under $2K ? Regards, . .. ... .- -> -->## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include