Risc System/6000

[Phil Windley/20000000]

In article <5098 at brazos.Rice.edu> schafer at brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer) writes:

   I just signed on IBMLINK and ran a configuration on the standard grayscale
   configuration.  I don't come up with the $12,995 price, but did produce the
   following configuration:

   Powerstation 320   $7475
   120MB disk         $1950
   Grayscale adapter  $1395
   keyboard           $ 255
   mouse              $ 130
   mono display       $1295
		      ------ Hardware total, $12,500
   AIX 3.0            $1250
   AIX Xwindows       $ 500
		      ------ Software total, $ 1,750
			     Package total,  $14,250



An IBM ad in the San Francisco Chronicle  yesterday quoted the $12995 price
for a 320 with gretscale monitor, 8Mb RAM, 120 Mb disk, ethrenet, AIX, and
AIX Windows.  I don't know what kind of pricing arrangement it is, but
apparently, they're selling a "complete" machine for that price.  


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