[Info-vax] DEC/HP pricing, was: Re: Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-11-07, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> It was never a mystery to me!  DEC was totally out of touch with the 
> market place.  The the RAM for the Rainbow that DEC sold for ~$700, I 
> bought at the Trenton Computer Festival for $30 US!  The 20 MB disk 
> drive that DEC sold for $2200, I bought for $300.  The 5-1/4" floppy 
> disks that DEC sold for $5 US each, I bought for $0.50 each and 
> formatted them myself in spite of the fact that my Rainbow "could not 
> properly format a floppy disk!"
>

It's still going on.

I currently have a quote on my desk for a Alpha server. The pricing
for 512MB of memory is over 900 UKP (which is around 1500 USD at current
exchange rates according to Google). (I don't have the exact price as I'm
not at work at the moment).

I don't expect commodity pricing in a server, but that's more than a bit
excessive.

Simon.

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