Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!gatech!rayssd!unisec!dpw From: dpw@unisec.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Cheapest 7300 I've Seen Yet! Message-ID: <506@unisec.usi.com> Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 13:03:10 EDT Article-I.D.: unisec.506 Posted: Sat Jun 20 13:03:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 04:46:45 EDT References: <7300> <3b1> <2140@ihuxz.ATT.COM> <4305@ihlpa.ATT.COM> Reply-To: dpw@unisec.USI.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) Distribution: world Organization: UniSecure Systems, Inc. Newport, RI Lines: 36 >Yes, but what they don't tell you there is that you have to buy UN*X on >top of that (thus add ~$200 to that price). Of course you have to pay for Unix on top of that. If you buy a PC clone for say $700 you have to pay for MS-DOS or steal it. Lets look at a PC clone compared to the Unix PC. First lets add up the cost of the equipment that doesn't come with a clone. Modem ~$150.00 Montor ~110.00 20 Meg Hard disk ~250.00 Ports ~75.00 Graphics Card ~95.00 384K Ram ~70.00 ------- ~750.00 This is all the stuff that comes standard with the Unix PC. So compared to a PC clone it makes the system cost only $56.00. And if that is not a good enough deal for you AT&T is giving a $100-200 rebate on top of that. Which makes the cost -$44.00. I will buy PC clones all day at that price :-). Yep, leave it up to AT&T to try to pull something over on you by not telling you that you have to buy Unix. Of course the utility set also cost about $350.00 but it includes vi, ksh, C compiler, lint, sdb, lex, and yacc plus much more. Try to buy that for a clone for the same price. I have no love for AT&T and firmly beleive that the saving grace for the Unix PC is that it was built for AT&T by CT. -- Darryl Wagoner UniSecure Systems, Inc.; dpw@unisec.usi.com Newport, RI; (401)-849-0857 UUCP: {gatech|mirror|cbosgd|uiucdcs|ihnp4}!rayssd!unisec!dpw