geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) (11/13/90)
The $2795 old demo cube fire sale was one big disappointment here. Our
local Businessland "reserved" 10 machines for us (a group of friends),
faxed us a quote, then told us they were sold out and tried to peddle us
their $3995 cubes. I hope this didn't happen to any of you.
Geoffrey S. Knauth geoff@camex.com
Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St. geoff%camex@uunet.uu.net
Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451 --standard disclaimers--herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) (11/13/90)
geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) writes: >The $2795 old demo cube fire sale was one big disappointment here. Our >local Businessland "reserved" 10 machines for us (a group of friends), >faxed us a quote, then told us they were sold out and tried to peddle us >their $3995 cubes. I hope this didn't happen to any of you. > Geoffrey S. Knauth geoff@camex.com > Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St. geoff%camex@uunet.uu.net >Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451 --standard disclaimers-- I think that whether or not a person or group got a hold of some of the demo cubes depended heavily on the savvy of the salesman at your local Businessland outlet. A friend of mine and I each got a hold of demo cubes, but as I understand it our Minneapolis sales rep actually got on the phone to the Chicago distribution center the morning the sale started, reserved five machines, had somebody in Chicago tag them, and then began selling them here. He took a risk ( I guess ), but sold all five of the machines that he had reserved within 24 hours of of the start of the fire sale. I was just lucky enough to be one of the people. - Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William R. Herndon Secure Computing Technology Corp. The opinions expressed are mine, ALL MINE! HEH, HEH, herndon@sctc.com HEH, HEH!!! (612) 482-7431
cmaeda@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) (11/13/90)
> I think that whether or not a person or group got a hold of some of > the demo cubes depended heavily on the savvy of the salesman at your > local Businessland outlet. A friend of mine and I each got a hold of Yeah. I called up my local rep on a friday (11/2), reserved a machine, and paid an extra $50 to have it flown in via overnight express (I think from Chicago since the machine was on central time). I had the cube up and running Monday afternoon. Now I'm about to order an upgrade board and get my home ethernet set up. My old ibm-pc has been earmarked as a slip-to-thinnet router. What fun! -- Chris Maeda, CMU CS |Mail: cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu Yow! I find I enjoy netnews more after |UUCP: fuck if I know having a couple of twinkies and a coke. |(si:halt "boot Am I a Unix Weenie yet? |")