Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!wuarchive!zazen!dogie!anderson From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: cube for sale, price reduction Message-ID: <1991Mar13.211904.17762@macc.wisc.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 21:19:04 GMT References: <13MAR91102559@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: usa,local Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Lines: 39 In article <13MAR91102559@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu writes: >In article , dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) writes... >>> <3 months old >>> cube >>> 040 >>> 330meg disk >>> 8meg ram >>> floppy drive forthcomming >>> os 2.0 >>> full warrenty >>> optical drive >>> $9.0k >>gee, isn't this the same configuration that next offered through universities >>and developers for $6497 last fall? >Yup! My price from UofA for that is ~$6995. $9000 isn't much of a >price reduction for those who at Universities. Might you both be pretty wrong? Optical drives are not cheap. My (university price for 040 Cube/16 MB memory/ 660MB hd, 2.88MB floppy was $8695 in November. Figuring on taking off $1100 for the memory difference, plus about $1700 for the HD difference, and adding in about $2000 for the OD, I guess a fair university price would be about $8000. (for the finicky, my price list has 400MB and we're talking about the older 330s.) Are you other guys talking about stations, or something? -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888