What is this? Looks like maybe a VAX of some sort...

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sat Jun 1 00:15:27 2002

At 11:54 PM 31/05/2002 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:

>PS: what are those Aquisition values? Are those original purchase
>prices prorated for inflation? 45 thousand bucks seem to be high
>even for an RA81. But what was the original purchase price
>back then?

It's been a while but in 1983 (maybe '84) I was involved with purchasing
some of the first RA81s in Australia and $45K each is about what we paid
for them. This included educational discount and in those days an
Australian dollar was probably worth more than a US one, so $45K "retail"
sounds about right. Let's see, that's less than $100/Mb!

Of course we were badly bitten by the glue problem that RA81s had, and the
two original drives were replaced several times. In fact the HDAs were
replaced so frequently that Joe (our Digital engineer) and I had it down to
less than 20 minutes....

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