Kling%UCI-20B@UCI-ICSA.ARPA (Rob-Kling) (09/03/85)
Some dealers in Southern California are pricing the Leading Edge D Machine rather aggresively -- with 640K, parallel & seriel port, Hercules-like board, hefty power supply, monitor & 2 DSDD drives ... about $1300-$1400. About $700 more for a 20MB Seagate or Rodine hard disk w/WD controller. They will also take off about 25% for universities...... making the floppy machine about $1150 and the hard disk machine about $1700. These are attractive prices..... if the machine works well, is about as compatable as anything else on the market, etc. (And if Leading Edge doesn't go under in its endless suits with Mitsubishi.) BTW. The machine has a small footprint and also comes with a 1 year warranty. Processor is an 8088 at 4.77 MHz. No speed demon, but the aim seems to be to aim at the highest cmpatability possible (Phoenix BIOS, ...). I would apprecaite any comments on the compatability, ruggedness of the Leading Eedge D machine from people who can share some recent experience. I am told that this machine is just coming to market and that it is better (?) than the earlier M machine which Mitsubishi manufactured for Leading Edge. I'll summarize key responses for the net. Rob Kling Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine kling@uci-icsa PS. Corona has also recently dropped prices. I would also appreciate comments on the IBM compatability & general value of the Corona portables manufactured in the last year (since the ROM BIOS was changed because of the suit by IBM). Tnx. RK