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Subject: Re: Transcript on Laserwriter
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 19:50:58 EST
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From: jjhnsn@ut-ngp.arpa (J. Lee Johnson)

I was going to reply that I have been trying for 5 weeks to get an
informal but official bid from Adobe so that we could buy Transcript.
The letter arrived via Federal Express while I was still reading Ken
Mandelberg's posting.

The good news is the site-wide source license that Adobe is offering for
$2950. This is important to us. We were going to license just one Vax
($1795 source license). This means we will be able to run Transcript on
our SUN's also. It means we can put one executable copy in a public area
and not have to worry about which work stations can execute it.

I wouldn't write off the HP LaserJet too quickly. HP has given us a
pricing schedule that is better than the Apple consortium discounts.
This means that LaserJets still cost less than half as much as
Laserwriters! Sure, we recommend the Laserwriter, but the LaserJet makes
laser printing affordable by every department.

Our interest in $10K laser printers using the Cannon LBP-CX engine
(Imagen and QMS) is waning rapidly. We've already lost interest in
daisy-wheel printers :-)

James Lee Johnson, U.T. Computation Center, Austin, Texas 78712
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