Re: interesting /. story on RPG

prev post with announce letter - but unit not avail
till Feb 22.
http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_102-034
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: interesting /. story on RPG


> rom: Jim Franz <franz400@triad.rr.com>
>
> > > > alternatively, IBM could lower the price of small baby iSeries to
> > > > make them competitive.
> > >
> > ibm did just lower the model 250 by about 30%
> > but this box way too small for Linux
>
> too small?? Linux runs fine on my old 8MB 33-MHHz 386.
>
> >
> > <clip from The Four Hundred newsletter Feb 18>
> > (but I have not yet found the real ibm announcement & ibm prices on web
> > don't yet match this)
>
> When I tried (today) to buy a 250 (with V4R5 - can't get V5R1),
> the minimum price was $10,000.
>
> > With last week's announcements, these machines are available as the
Model
> > 250 entry and growth configurations, with four times the disk capacity,
but
> > for $4,800 and $8,300,
>
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