Re: DEC Support?

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From: Steve Simmons
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:08

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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?

Not at this shop.  That's higher by 3x than the retail prices I see
for DEC drives, and it's not too difficult to get discounts.
-- 
scs:  Currently tied for 2536th on the Zwicky list with `zwicky'.  The
      list was compiled by Elizabeth Zwicky (not Fritz, not Arnold),
      zwicky@erg.sri.com.

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