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From: gmadison@pnet02.cts.com (George Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is there really no better value?
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Date: 26 Apr 89 05:41:15 GMT
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As a recent graduate of Pomona College (in the same system as Harvey Mudd), I
want to amplify what Alex Haley said about dismal results from IBM equipment. 
I could not BELIEVE the price P.C. paid per unit for a lousy 2-floppy PS/2
Model 30 -- utterly laughable.  Even after adding in the cost of a 3rd party
VGA board to a comparable Tandy 1000, Tandy's RETAIL price was comparable (a
bit lower, actually) and the price that P.C. would have gotten was
significantly LOWER.  I also heard that they were planning on spending $750
PER CARD for AppleTalk cards for the Model 30's when the TandyLink card was
going for $150.  (The Model 30's are in a PC lab with a batch of Mac SE's,
hence the use of AppleTalk.)

I don't know where some people are getting the weird idea that Tandy is more
expensive than IBM, but it just isn't true.  Maybe if you compare IBM discount
educational prices to Tandy's retail... but not if you compare HONESTLY.


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