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- From: awhitton@bnr.ca (Alan Whitton)
- Subject: Re: DN10K's for sale
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.120622.9805@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa
- References: <1992Aug18.235741.28813@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1992Aug20.135129.8315@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:06:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.135129.8315@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>, hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
- |> System Admin (Mike Peterson) (system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca) wrote:
- |> : In article <1992Aug18.182535.29959@tc.cornell.edu> hurf@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
- |> : > I know it would take an HP750
- |> : > or an RS6000/550 to replace them so maybe 40-60% of
- |> : > that cost ($75k) seems like a good starting point.
- |> :
- |> : Didn't know April 1 fell in August this year :-).
- |>
- |> Seriously, we just traded one for a 400s and the whole time felt like
- |> at any moment somebody was gonna catch us with our hand stuck in the
- |> cookie jar...
- |>
- |> Wasn't it just a few weeks ago somebody was selling one for $700 plus the
- |> cost of shipping?
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- HP actually had a trade-in program where you got about $5K off the price
- of a 750 if you traded your DN10K in. Not bad if you bought it about 3 years
- ago, and have "creatively accounted" it down to nothing....
-
- Regards,
- Alan Whitton
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