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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:spiffy terminals
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Date: 14 Jan 89 01:35:00 GMT
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Nf-From: spdyne.UUCP!root    Jan 13 19:35:00 1989


>In article <408@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>>    The difference in cost is between $ 1000 and $ 1500.  When you
>>multiply this by the number of terminals in an office, the cost starts
>>to become prohibitive.
>
>This line of argumentation has been refuted already, but let's try
>again:  Why not supply your office workers with packing crates or
>even cardboard boxes instead of real office furniture?  Just think
>of the savings!

    Yea,  Ever work for Mehta-Tech?  (I doubt it, they only had 20 or so
employees.. I was luckly enough to be one of them :-)

    The "desk" that I had was a door with 2x4's for legs.  Another person had
a 1/2" Corn-board top and had put masking tape around the edges because it
was ripping their pants when they leaned against it!

    We worked right there in the warehouse, no need for office space!  They
didn't bother to have any ventillation, after all it cost more if they
opened the two 6" vents that the place did have.  (6 chain smokers, an alcohol
bath and other things..)

    On the other hand, Have you ever considered doing what we did for our
users? (at my Current company), we just bought them AST 286'es, they cost
about the same as the "spiffy" terminals.. and they Blow them away in
versitillity!  If they later decide that they want to do a little lotus
spreadsheet, no problem!.. I think that they costs us about $2400.

    I doubt that I would ever pay that much for "just a terminal"!

        -Chert Pellett
         root@spdyne