[comp.sys.next] cube for sale, price reduction

dennisg@kgw2.Xetron.COM (Dennis Glatting) (03/13/91)

<3 months old
cube
040
330meg disk
8meg ram
floppy drive forthcomming
os 2.0
full warrenty
optical drive

$9.0k

zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (RALPH ZAZULA) (03/14/91)

In article <AbrZ_hO00io3A38lkG@andrew.cmu.edu>, dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) writes...
>> <3 months old
>> cube
>> 040
>> 330meg disk
>> 8meg ram
>> floppy drive forthcomming
>> os 2.0
>> full warrenty
>> optical drive
>>
>> $9.0k
>gee, isn't this the same configuration that next offered through universities
>and developers for $6497 last fall?

Yup!  My price from UofA for that is ~$6995.  $9000 isn't much of a 
price reduction for those who at Universities.

Ralph 
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dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) (03/14/91)

> <3 months old
> cube
> 040
> 330meg disk
> 8meg ram
> floppy drive forthcomming
> os 2.0
> full warrenty
> optical drive
>
> $9.0k
gee, isn't this the same configuration that next offered through universities
and developers for $6497 last fall?

anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (03/14/91)

In article <13MAR91102559@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu writes:

>In article <AbrZ_hO00io3A38lkG@andrew.cmu.edu>, dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) writes...

>>> <3 months old
>>> cube
>>> 040
>>> 330meg disk
>>> 8meg ram
>>> floppy drive forthcomming
>>> os 2.0
>>> full warrenty
>>> optical drive

>>> $9.0k

>>gee, isn't this the same configuration that next offered through universities
>>and developers for $6497 last fall?

>Yup!  My price from UofA for that is ~$6995.  $9000 isn't much of a 
>price reduction for those who at Universities.


Might you both be pretty wrong?  Optical drives are not
cheap.  My (university price for 040 Cube/16 MB memory/
660MB hd, 2.88MB floppy was $8695 in November.  Figuring
on taking off $1100 for the memory difference, plus
about $1700 for the HD difference, and adding in about
$2000 for the OD, I guess a fair university price would
be about $8000.  (for the finicky, my price list has
400MB and we're talking about the older 330s.)

Are you other guys talking about stations, or something?

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zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (RALPH ZAZULA) (03/14/91)

In article <1991Mar13.211904.17762@macc.wisc.edu>, anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes...
>In article <13MAR91102559@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu writes:
> 
>>In article <AbrZ_hO00io3A38lkG@andrew.cmu.edu>, dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) writes...
> 
>>>> <3 months old
>>>> cube
>>>> 040
>>>> 330meg disk
>>>> 8meg ram
>>>> floppy drive forthcomming
>>>> os 2.0
>>>> full warrenty
>>>> optical drive
> 
>>>> $9.0k
> 
>>>gee, isn't this the same configuration that next offered through universities
>>>and developers for $6497 last fall?
> 
>>Yup!  My price from UofA for that is ~$6995.  $9000 isn't much of a 
>>price reduction for those who at Universities.
> 
> 
>Might you both be pretty wrong?  Optical drives are not
>cheap.  My (university price for 040 Cube/16 MB memory/
>660MB hd, 2.88MB floppy was $8695 in November.  Figuring
>on taking off $1100 for the memory difference, plus
>about $1700 for the HD difference, and adding in about
>$2000 for the OD, I guess a fair university price would
>be about $8000.  (for the finicky, my price list has
>400MB and we're talking about the older 330s.)
> 
>Are you other guys talking about stations, or something?
> 
>--
>Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
>Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
>NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc
>Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888

Boing!  It's that new math....  Yes, I forgot to add in the OD price.
That would put it about $8100....  A bit closer.

sorry,
Ralph


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