> > >On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > That was a good price. I don't know what a reseller will pay
> > > you for it, since obviously they make their money by paying
> > > less for the equipment than they charge.
> > Considering I've been seeing reseller prices hovering around $15,000.
> > Peace... Sridhar
>
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> I have heard that these VAX systems are needed by the Pentagon
> due the the 9/11 problem - they lost quite a few on that day. So
> the resellers are trying to fill orders that are being re-sold at much
> higher than normal prices as compared with a year ago.
I offered them a VAX 7730 and they were pretty specific they only
wanted 7800 CPUs. There's only a 10VUP difference per CPU between
a 7700 and 7800, too, so they must use a 7860 configuration.
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Received on Fri Jan 18 2002 - 12:39:59 GMT