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From: cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <1670015@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:54:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.121715.25269@qut.edu.au>
Organization: the Mosthamster's Desk, Internet Engineering
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    >Machine             Price      MFLOPs      Cost per MFLOP
    >------------      --------    -------      ---------------
    >IBM 6000/550      $138,000      25           $5,500
    >HP  9000/730        19,900      22              900
    
    Are you sure its 20grand. We've been quoted $A105000 for a 9000/750 in
    Oz;  128M and 2.4Gb. $Oz = 76c US.
    Perhaps there's a massive markup across the Pacific, or you've left
    out a zero. 

Sure it's $20,000 - that's a 730, which has the same cpu as the 750 but
isn't as expandable.  I imagine the 112 additional meg of memory and 2.4
gig of disk cost extra, too.

cricket