[Info-vax] Installed and working

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Thu Jul 21 13:11:27 EDT 2011


In article 
<dadf292b-1f05-4ad0-9793-b89a0348dec0 at o18g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
 Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:

> On Jul 21, 4:06 am, IanMiller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
> > the nemonix drives are new and guaranteed - any RX series you find in
> > a cupboard is neither.
> >
> > How much is your data worth?
> 
> True enough and props to Nemonix for making them available.  However
> the price _does_ allow room for some good natured jibes.  And just for
> the fun of it, from the Spring/Summer 1992 DECDirect Hardware Edition
> catalog, we present - Storage Prices
> 
> RZ23L   121MB      $1440.00
> RZ24     204MB      $1884.00
> RZ25     426MB      $2550.00
> 
> And from summer 1993
> 
> RZ23L   121MB      $475.00
> RZ24L   245MB      $875.00
> RZ25     426MB      $1425.00
> RZ26     1.05GB     $2595.00
> RZ26B   1.05GB     $2595.00
> 
> From the price drops I guess there was some competing going on ;)

Hehe.  In the mid-nineties we had a new manager who put his foot down on 
a request for more disk space.  He'd worked at an IBM shop before and 
found that requests for extra disk space were coming simply because 
folks were too lazy to tidy up  stuff they no longer needed.

Denying those requests forced his staff to do some proactive clearing up 
and it saved a lot on new disk purchases.  Naturally he tried the same 
in his new job, and this one got up to board level.

Eventually in yet another meeting with the board, someone actually asked 
the DEC salesman what another 2 GB would cost.  When the answer came 
back as GBP 2K they all fell around laughing, for it was peanuts in 
comparison with the man hours involved in meetings on the subject.

-- 
Paul Sture



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