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From: podop01@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu ({Jana|Steve} W[ae]chsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM screws RT owners?
Message-ID: <3023@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 16:30:08 GMT
References: <1133@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: podop01@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu ({Jana|Steve} W[ae]chsler)
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In article <1133@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:
>One excerpt from the Official Announcement:
>
>   "an RT Migration Assistance Program is available to help 
>    protect current RT system investments. For RT Systems 
>    purchased between Jan. 1, 1989 and June 30, 1990, IBM,
>    for a limited time, is offering migration assistance trade-in
>    credit on a one-for-one basis to customers who want to
>    migrate from the RT system to a RISC System/6000 POWERStation
>    or POWERServer."

Funny...my IBM rep told me that the migration period was June '89 to
the present...which makes it even worse, since our last system was
purchased in May '89.

The new RS/6000 (that's RISC System/6000) series looks good, though,
especially when you consider the price.  $13k for an 8mb, monochrome
graphics (1,280 x 1,024) and 120 Mb disk drive (which is the
*smallest* available).  Now I just have to convince my boss that we
need them...

						-- Steve
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                      {Jana|Steve} W[ae]chsler
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