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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the verge of becoming wildly out of date.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.

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