Re: Urgent advise needed aboubt choice of model 400 or 500,need a bit of sensible advise!!!

> I have a rare  opportunity of purchasing from the company I work for a
> Model 500-2141 128M ram, (no hardrives or ethernet card) CPW 30.7
> 
> the other choice is a Model 400- 2131  (no hardrives or ethernet card) CPW
> 20.6.
> 
> these are for home use --I can get harddrives from my  old model 200cisc
> system -so thats not a problem.My question is which one should I
> choose????????????
> Both will be the same price more or less
> Should I bust a leg and buy both?
> Whats a fair price to offer? (US market close is close to ours)please note
> these have no OS400 ,but this is a rare opportunity to own a Risc system.I
> really want these so I need a bit of sensible advise. I have to act ASAP on
> this

hmm.  the os/400 on these machines will be expensive, since they're not
in the p5 tier.  i believe you'd be looking at somewhere about $20,000
to get os/400 and compilers, etc to have what you need to use it. 

you may be better to look for a small machine for sale, with os/400
included.  the little 150 and 170 is pretty cheap!

nj
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