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Title: prices
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Posted: Fri Mar 25 21:17:04 1983
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GJC@MIT-ML 03/25/83 13:28:26 Re: prices
To: INFO-VAX at MIT-MC
One has to account for prices of non-dec stuff of course. It
doesn't take much footwork to come up with prices approximately:
DISK:  equivalent of 2 RP06 ... $17k
TAPE: 1600 BPI, Vacuum Col, Rack Mount ... $8k
MEMORY: 1 megabyte, 4-year warranty  ... $2.4k
CRT: $600 purchase, $150/year maintainence
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Service contracts being available for these non-dec items if you
shop carefully, most parts having mean-time-between failure rates
much better than the dec equivalents at that. No doubt the utility
of buying non-dec depends on the area of the country you are in.

Then too, the prices of things like floating-point accelerators are important.