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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: <1991Apr10.003528.10654@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 10 Apr 91 00:35:28 GMT
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In <1991Apr9.164439.9440@midway.uchicago.edu> rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:

>Rowan Hughes concludes:
>> better value. The HP750 hasn't quite toppled the IBM550.

>Agreed.  Further, the price of the IBM can be brought down by
>using third party memory and disks (we have confirmation this
>I have dealt extensively with both HP and IBM here in Chicagoland,
>and found the IBM staff MUCH more competent technically, and
.....
I argee with this as well, although more with the Apollo part of HP.
.....
We are being taken to the cleaners with Apollo-HP maintenance too.
It's around 25% of the purchase price per year.
There're some 3-party groups with IBM memory, and HP memory soon, but
I've found there're not much cheaper than either IBM, or HP.

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