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- From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
- Subject: Re: DN10K's for sale
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.132228.8617@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
- Organization: "NovAtel Communications Ltd."
- References: <1992Aug21.120622.9805@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:22:28 GMT
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- Alan Whitton (awhitton@bnr.ca) wrote:
- : 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....
-
- Actually, our depreciation cycle is 5 years and we've only had the
- thing for about 2 1/2. We still have one left, and we can't even run
- our Mentor software on it anymore since we need new versions of libraries
- and can only get them for the m68k processors... It's acting as an over-
- glorified Authorized Area now... We lose.
-
- But if you think THAT's bad, we've only had our 5500's for a year......
-
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- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew |
- I was late to start, I | peyerlh@cuug.ab.ca | there- |
- might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I |
- I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. |
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