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From: richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Summary: IBM -vs- AMIGA system costs
Message-ID: <4251@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 21:42:49 GMT
References: <5527@ur-cc.UUCP>
Organization: Varian Instruments, Walnut Creek CA
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In article <5527@ur-cc.UUCP>, jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
> Several folk here claim that an equivalently loaded IBM-clone
> system with 40 meg HD, 3 Megs ram, '386 and VGA graphics with
> monitor costs $600-800 less than than the A2500/30 at $3600
> (ed discount price). Is this true?

I new IBM system cost breakdown:

$1200		80386 20 MHz Mylex motherboard(AMI Bios) with 64K 80ns ram cache
$500		4 Megs 80ns Ram on the motherboard
$400		80387 20 MHz co-processor
$ 50		5 1/4, 1.2Meg floppy
$ 50		3 1/2, 1.4Meg floppy
$400		65 Meg RLL Toshiba Harddisk RLL
$100		Western Digital controller WD1006-RLL
$600		NEC Multisync 3D Monitor (.31)
$300		Super High res VGA card with 512K memory (1024x768)i,(800x600)ni
$ 50		2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game ports
$ 50		101 extended keyboard
$200		Tower Case with 220 watt power supply
--------
$3900.00 + Tax

This has been a great system. I think this is about the going costs for
an IBM system.  The computing power is about 5 times faster than an AMIGA
not including the co-processor.  This system runs at about 5600 drystones.
The advantage of the AMIGA system is in its NTSC video and internal sound
capabilities, but this system has the processing power.



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