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mack (mack@xray.duke.edu) wrote:

: Joseph Mack mack@xray.duke.edu, (919)-613-8890, FAX-(919)-684-8885
: Xray Lab Manager, Sysop
: MacroMolecular Structure Group, Duke University, Durham NC, 27710
: 	
: 	We at Duke are currently using 8 of these running
: pvm3 to do parallel processing. At a price of $750
: you can use these as a cheap home computer, as a gateway,
: www server or print server.
:
Gee, it looks like Duke University is now starting to endorse individual
pieces of hardware and/or vendors...I wonder if the poster realises that
Duke's Legal Department in the basement of the Allen Building would not be
too happy with a public endorsement of a hardware vendor.
 
: _NO_ manuals are available. I have a copy of the manual and will attempt
: to make it available, probably for a copying fee. For a starter look 
: on the webpage (address below). 

As a Digital Reseller, I would suggest NOT copying that manual...just
because the product is obsolete, doesn't make DEC's copyright on the
manuals.

: Please note these prices my best estimate at the moment.

: 	Joseph Mack
: 	Sysadmin, Xray Group
: 	Duke University Medical Center
: 	Durham, NC, 27710
: 	(919)-613-8890 (UTC-5hrs)
: 	mack@xray.duke.edu


So let's go through this one last time...we have a Duke Employee, speaking
as a Duke Employee, endorsing not only a product, but also a specific
vendor??? I would more more than willing to be that this posting, along
with the fact that the poster is keeping people abreast of this "group
purchase" on Duke's resources, would be enough to hold Duke University
liable in the event someone is hosed in this group buy...that
notwithstanding, and having sold hardware to DUKE for a number of years,
be advised that DUKE UNIVERSITY DOESN'T NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN A GROUP BUY
FOR ANY TYPE OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT -- VENDORS COME TO THEM BEGGING TO SELL
THEIR HARDWARE TO DUKE. Duke buys around $14,000,000 in computers a year,
only about $3,000,000 come through the Campus Computer Store, the rest is
USUALLY directly from the hardware manufactuers -- DIGITAL is one of them,
and Duke gets the best pricing I've seen from DEC, SUN, HP, SGI, etc.

Just some information to digest, aside from that, the machines are EASILY
obtainable at the $600 price point ALL DAY LONG.



Dave Briggman