home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!mprgate.mpr.ca!mprgate.mpr.ca!morse
- From: morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse)
- Subject: Re: DEC Support?
- In-Reply-To: dgray@menudo.uh.edu's message of 19 Nov 1992 05:36:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <MORSE.92Nov19085839@quark.mpr.ca>
- Sender: news@mprgate.mpr.ca
- Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, BC, Canada.
- References: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov16.235148.9336@eco.twg.com>
- <1992Nov18.054500.2450@csrd.uiuc.edu>
- <1992Nov19.121523.8216@brt.deakin.edu.au>
- <DGRAY.92Nov18233610@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 08:58:39
- Lines: 40
-
-
- In article <DGRAY.92Nov18233610@menudo.uh.edu> dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.) writes:
-
- In article <1992Nov19.121523.8216@brt.deakin.edu.au> dougcc@brt.deakin.edu.au (Douglas Miller) writes:
-
- >DEC "support" will not even talk to you unless you have one of their
- >outrageously priced service contracts.
-
- More "outrageous prices" --- care to justify these assertions?
-
- > Okay, How many manufacturers are getting $10,000 for a 1.3 gig drive?
- > How about $2000 for a single hard drive controller? $8,000 for a 351
- > meg drive? (I would point out that an 8 meg RAM card costs $8,000,
- > but I understand SGI has even higher prices than that.) These are
- > what I call outrageous prices.
-
- I'm bit rusty to be able to guess whether you are refering to SDI,
- DSSI, or SCSI drives, but if it's the latter, then your prices are on
- the verge of becoming wildly out of date.
-
- In the latest issue dn&r, an interesting table describing the latest
- crop of SCSI drives shows that DEC has two very competitive drives
- coming out within the next two months.
-
- DSP5350: 3.5 Gbyte, 5.25 in, 11.5 ms seek, 20 Mbyte transfer, $3495, 1/93.
- DSP5350: 1.6 Gbyte, 3.5 in, 10.0 ms seek, 20 Mbyte transfer, $1995, 12/92.
-
- As for memory, another table (describing memory for DEC 3000) shows:
-
- 32 Mbyte $4000. Other vendor's prices are $4800 and $5600.
- 64 Mbyte $8000. Other vendor's prices are $7800 and $10000.
-
- Check also the prices for the new Alpha AXP systems. I think you will
- also see that on a price/performance basis, they are very competitive.
-
- --
- Daryl Morse | Voice : (604) 293-5476
- MPR Teltech Ltd. | Fax : (604) 293-5787
- 8999 Nelson Way, Burnaby, BC | E-Mail : morse@mpr.ca
- Canada, V5A 4B5 | : mprgate.mpr.ca!morse@uunet.uu.net
-