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From: csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Rowan Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.052542.2080@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 9 Apr 91 05:25:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.121715.25269@qut.edu.au> <1670015@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Organization: James Cook University
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In <1670015@hpcc01.HP.COM> cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu) writes:

>    >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

This is stretching things about as far as you can go. The $19,900 is
for the BASE system. The IBM's price is FULLY configured; 128Mb + 2.4Gb.
The memory alone will have added around another $50-60k onto its price.
There's plenty of expansion slots left on the IBM, and they're costly.
The HP730 has only one slot left (so I've been told).
University prices in Aus are as follows:

base HP720    $25000                      base IBM320    $18000
base HP730    $35000                    base IBM54/50    $80000 (a guess)
base HP750    $80000             full config IBM54/50   $125000
full config HP750 $105000

If the HP72/30's really do get around 20Mflops, then they're certainly
better value. The HP750 hasn't quite toppled the IBM550.


Rowan Hughes
Marine Modelling Unit
James Cook University of North Queensland
csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au