cmv@ihuxz.UUCP (06/15/87)
Hang on to your hats folks... In this Sunday's Chicago Tribune, on the back page of "The Arts" section (#13) appears an ad for the AT&T Unix-pc for $785.00. According to the ad, this includes 1MB RAM and a 20 MB Hard disk. It does not appear to include version 3.5 of the operating system which you can get from them for a mere $210.00. I do not know if you get any software with it (like maybe the 3.0 O.S.) but if you're looking for a good deal on the hardware, this is the best I've seen! The company's stats are: Elek-Tek, Inc. 6557 North Lincoln Av. Lincolnwood IL 60645 Orders and Info. (312)677-7660 For all those (myself included) that already have one: "Could be worse, could be raining..." Craig Votava AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL 312/979-2542 ihnp4!ihlpm!cmv /* End of text from ih3b1:unix-pc.general */
wolfordj@ihlpa.UUCP (06/19/87)
Yes, but what they don't tell you there is that you have to buy UN*X on
top of that (thus add ~$200 to that price).
Jeff Wolford
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+-- iwsag!iw3btjw!jwwdpw@unisec.UUCP (06/20/87)
>Yes, but what they don't tell you there is that you have to buy UN*X on >top of that (thus add ~$200 to that price). Of course you have to pay for Unix on top of that. If you buy a PC clone for say $700 you have to pay for MS-DOS or steal it. Lets look at a PC clone compared to the Unix PC. First lets add up the cost of the equipment that doesn't come with a clone. Modem ~$150.00 Montor ~110.00 20 Meg Hard disk ~250.00 Ports ~75.00 Graphics Card ~95.00 384K Ram ~70.00 ------- ~750.00 This is all the stuff that comes standard with the Unix PC. So compared to a PC clone it makes the system cost only $56.00. And if that is not a good enough deal for you AT&T is giving a $100-200 rebate on top of that. Which makes the cost -$44.00. I will buy PC clones all day at that price :-). Yep, leave it up to AT&T to try to pull something over on you by not telling you that you have to buy Unix. Of course the utility set also cost about $350.00 but it includes vi, ksh, C compiler, lint, sdb, lex, and yacc plus much more. Try to buy that for a clone for the same price. I have no love for AT&T and firmly beleive that the saving grace for the Unix PC is that it was built for AT&T by CT. -- Darryl Wagoner UniSecure Systems, Inc.; dpw@unisec.usi.com Newport, RI; (401)-849-0857 UUCP: {gatech|mirror|cbosgd|uiucdcs|ihnp4}!rayssd!unisec!dpw