[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 8, 7:15 am, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2009-11-07, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilber... 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.
>
> --
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980's technology to a 21st century world

I agree. A few years back, I purchased a 1GB kit for AS-DS20e and we
paid $700 Canadian. The system ran so fast that we went back to them
for a second kit only to discover that the kit was now $600. We
purchased the kit from www.systemresale.ca who may have partners in
the UK (maybe they would ship to the UK?)

NSR