brando@linus.UUCP (T. J. Brando) (01/09/86)
I'm submitting this for a friend who wants to buy a micro for the usual
business applications - payroll, bookkeeping, word processing, database,
etc. - in a small business environment. He's currently attracted to the
IBM AT because the name is IBM and because of the amount of available
software. He's gotten his hands on the following list of AT clones, and
expects me to advise him on the relative advantages/disadvantages of each.
I'd really appreciate it if anyone out there with an opinion on any of
these machines would share that opinion with me BY EMAIL. If you're
interested in learning what I learn, let me know BY EMAIL. If enough
people are interested, I'll post a summary to the net. Thanks in advance.
--- AT clone --- Price Speed Operating System(s)
AT&T PC 6300 + $6,320 6 MHz MS-DOS + Unix System V
Cordata ATD-8 $5,495 8 MHz MS-DOS
Cordata ATP-8 $5,595 8 MHz MS-DOS
Epson Equity III $4,780 6 MHz MS-DOS
HP Vectra PC $5,600 8 MHz MS-DOS
Honeywell PC AP $5,670 8 MHz MS-DOS
Sperry PC IT $6,065 8 MHz MS-DOS + Xenix
Tandy 3000 $3,800 8 MHz MS-DOS + Xenix
Wang APC $5,900 8 MHz MS-DOS + Xenix
Thom Brando
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