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

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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