jailbait@pogo.ai.mit.edu (Jailbait) (02/07/91)
Taken from a non-official price quote for hp/sequoia 1240 (Fault Tolerent) hardware. Does this seems a bit high to any of you? : HP PART# Desc Unit Price A1167A 560MB SCSI Disk Drive $16,000.00 A1168A 1/2" 6250/1600cpi Tape Drive $23,200.00 A1172A Multibus 802.3 LAN Interface $12,000.00 A1192A C Compiler & Library $10,200.00 And from a 9000/835 listing: OPT 531 Del 8MB-Add 32MB (RAM) $18,000.00 So, what we seem to have here is a SCSI drive that (vanilla plain) can be had for $1,500 for an order of magnatude more, memory that is going for $562 a MB (REALLY FAST Mac Simms can be had for what, $150/MB?), and a $12,000 ethernet card. Ok, there is probably special controller hardware with the disk drive, but it doesn't have hand tooled moroccan leather casing and 24k fittings. Or access time in the pico-second range. Where do these numbers come from? How can they be justified? 23k for a damn tape drive?? Either completely clueless about the death of ethical buisiness practices, or virtually outraged, JB