From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: What's Special about PS/2?
Organization: CARD
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:42:43 GMT

In article <sheldon.719076730@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu>                                                                                             
sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                      
>In <1992Oct12.213814.16241@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-st                                                                      
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>>In article <sheldon.718907791@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu                                                                       
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>>> We've looked at IBM's newer models, but a PS/2 computer is still twice                                                                            
>>>the price of a similarly equipped clone.  Even at educational prices.                                                                              
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>>I don't really think this is true anymore if you compare apples with                                                                                
>>apples. Look at the 9577 for example:                                                                                                               
>>486DX/2 66-33 with 8MB exp to 32 on MB with a 400MB (11.5 ms) hard                                                                                  
>>disk SCSI-2 busmaster controller and with xga-2. NEP price is $3510.                                                                                
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> Hmm, $3510 appears to be a drastic cut.                                                                                                             
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> The educational price list I have, which is dated October 5th from our                                                                              
>on campus distribution list shows a PS/2 Model 90, which is a DX2/50                                                                                 
>with 8 Megs of RAM, 400 MB harddisk, xga graphics and 14" monitor                                                                                    
>goines for $5353.                                                                                                                                    
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> Now how much is it going to cost to tack on 8 more megs of RAM, an                                                                                  
>ethernet card, a 5.25 HD drive, and a 17" NEC 5FG?                                                                                                   
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>Steve Sheldon         sheldon@iastate.edu                                                                                                            
>Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit                                                                                                           
>2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University  (515) 294-5429                                                                                                 
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Steve,                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                      
This is because the Micro Products Center has always been as slow as molasses                                                                         
in January to update the IBM prices on the sheet.  Give them a call, and they                                                                         
should be able to quote you a real price from their IBM price list.  I also                                                                           
use a program called ICP that IBM updates every time the prices change.  I can                                                                        
bring over the latest version if you would like.  It lets you pick from all                                                                           
the models IBM has, and put together a full configuration, and has a                                                                                  
selection for Educational Discount.  Requires OS/2.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                      
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University                                                                                                                                 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware