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From: sandy@turnkey.TCC.COM (Sanford 'Sandy' Zelkovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: free SIVA 386
Summary: It's quite possible
Message-ID: <2419@turnkey.TCC.COM>
Date: 29 Oct 88 12:51:43 GMT
References: <8366@alice.UUCP>
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Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Costa Mesa, Ca.
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In article <8366@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
> The offer (for those of you who may not know it yet) is that if you buy
> $2995 or more of (SCO) software or $4995 of hardware (printers, disks...)
> you get a FREE SIVA 386 system, with 1Mbyte memory, a ST-251-1 disk,
> a 1-1 interleave controller, tower case, keyboard, monitor...
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

That offer is quit possible since you will, I am sure, be paying full price
for your purchases. If you check a little closer, the 386 system is probably
the older 16mhz type. You see, you can buy a 16mhz 386 motherboard for
around $1000.00 +/- $100.00 nearly anywhere. Dealer costs on 20 mhz
motherboards, in single quantity, is around $1320.00. If they purchased
many 16 mhz boards, I am sure they got them at a much lower price.
With this all in mind, I guess they could just make such a deal. If I were
you, I wouldn't pay for anything in advance, though!
 
I have never heard of the company that you mentioned but it sure sounds like
a pretty good deal.

 
Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz
 
P.S.  You may also want to check on how much they want for additional memory
      since yu will need it to run Xenix along with VPiX. On my system, I
      had to increase my memory size to 4.5 megs for reliable operation.