Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!emory!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!arizona.edu!uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu!zazula From: zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (RALPH ZAZULA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: cube for sale, price reduction Message-ID: <13MAR91162032@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 21:20:32 GMT References: <13MAR91102559@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> <1991Mar13.211904.17762@macc.wisc.edu> Reply-To: zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu Distribution: usa,local Organization: University of Arizona Physics Department Lines: 56 Nntp-Posting-Host: uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Lines: 56 In article <1991Mar13.211904.17762@macc.wisc.edu>, anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes... >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 Boing! It's that new math.... Yes, I forgot to add in the OD price. That would put it about $8100.... A bit closer. sorry, Ralph |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ralph Zazula "Computer Addict!" | | University of Arizona --- Department of Physics | | UAZHEP::ZAZULA (DecNet/HEPNet) | | zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (Internet) | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | "You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge." - Neil Peart | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|