RE: Seeking your considered opinion.........

You mean to tell me that there are no special deals that IBM is offering
to schools who wish to teach on their machine?  They complain about a
shortage, and then quote an outrageous price on a machine!?!  They
should be giving away machines to schools!

Call someone who handles used equipement.  (There are tons of adds in
the back of Midrange Computing and News/400).  You could most likely
find a V3R2 machine (at the very least) for a very good price.

50k... hahah!  And just for a few students to tinker on.  (Although it
wouldn't be a bad idea to also use it for administration, etc...)

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Endre Enyedy [SMTP:e_enyedy@netside.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 2:35 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Seeking your considered opinion.........
> 
> Hello all:
> 
> I am seeking the considered opinion of this list, re this situation:
> 
> I work ( part-time at) at a vocational school, where we teach computer
> programming
> (intro - basic - c - cobol, etc).
> 
> I  proposed to add  RPG /400 and IV to our current syllabus - idea
> well
> received.  I 
> even proposed a small (used) 400  to be used for RPG, using existing
> PCs as
> workstations.  
> 
> But:
> 
> The President (owner) consulted with one of his friends , who just
> happens
> to be an
> IBM bussiness partner - and this guy suggested (and quoted) a machine
> for over
> $ 50,000, and this figure is just murdering my  project.
> 
> In the opinon of all you  Sages, what would be the really minimum
> configuration to
> propose and fight for  ?
> 
> Thanks to all of you
> 
> 
> EndreE
> 
> 
>  
> 
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