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- From: usdta004@mmm.serc.3m.com (Timothy S. Shea)
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.063443.4752@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 US
- References: <1992Aug27.205714.13960@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 06:34:43 GMT
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- From article <1992Aug27.205714.13960@CS.ORST.EDU>, by pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne):
- >
- >>Be real yourself. I use a 20 MHz 386 at work -- A real 386,
- >>not the crippleware SX version. (There's no such thing as
- >>a 396, by the way.) We paid over $7000 for the hardware and
- >>software. After struggling with this machine and its miserable
- >>performance for over six months, we finally decided that we needed
- >
- > If your company paid over $7000 for a 386, your company is not going to
- > make it very long. It sounds like a goverment agency spending thousands
- > on toilet seats, or my favorite, the daul purpose wrench that worked for
- > a couple of bolts on one type of plane only, it not only put the bolts in
- > it also took them out, all for over a thousand dollars each. Everyone
- > working for you purchasing department should be fired. The only exception
- > would be if the computer cost you very little and your using packages like
- > autocad that can run into the thousands. If so, your argument is invalid,
- > because serious software costs the same on either side of the fence.
- >
-
- Not true. We routinly cut checks for $7000 to $15000 per machine. We
- are not going to buy a 386 or 486 from Joe's Computer and Bait shop. We
- want to buy a machine that will last us for years, comes from a good
- manufacturing that we know will be around for a awhile, be expandable,
- and be upgradable. We want a decent monitor that will not ruin our eyes
- and will not burn out in two years. Normally the only software that
- comes with these machines are DOS/Windows, OS/2, or System 7.x. We also
- need a decent networking card and memory. Macs and PCs cost the same
- around here.
-
- We have tried purchasing equipment from Joe's Computer and Bait shop but
- we always run into problems of trying to get that machine to work in a
- new enviroment or with a different OS or one of the cards would
- mysteriously go bad or the monitor burned out.
-
- In the short term purchasing a cheap machine might soon good but in the
- long term you just end up having more troubles than it was worth.
-
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