Re: Seeking your considered opinion.........

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Endre,

IBM has a program called Partners In Education that will provide you with either
an old CISC system for free or a New RISC System (including the 170) on a 1%
lease.  That's hardware only.  You may also be eligble for free OS and utility
software, and pre-written course material that you can teach from.

For more information contact:

Contact Linda Grigoleit
AS/400 Partners In Education
3605 Hwy 52 North, IMAD 922
Rochester, MN  55902
507-253-7508
lfg@us.ibm.com

I'm currently working with a Bates Technical College in Washington State to get
them signed up for this program, even though I also sell and teach AS/400
technical training to private companies.   It's just good for the industry.


jte


P.S.  You can nicely configure a 170, _with_ software for around $30,000. A 1%
lease makes that cost about $300 a month.


Endre Enyedy wrote:

> 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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