At 06:43 PM 9/29/98 -0000, you wrote:
 My recollection is that the HP 9830 and IBM 5100 were
pretty competitively
priced.  Both started under 10K and went up fact if you wanted more memory,
a printer, etc. 
   Not really.  It depends on when you bought them.  I had IBM research my
5100 and it cost $12,575 originally.   I have SOME of the yearly prices for
the 5100 posted at "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/ibm5100.htm"
   Joe