29 Sep
1998
29 Sep
'98
6:43 a.m.
Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com> wrote about the failure (?) of the IBM 5100:
(the IBM 9830, for example, was about $10K for a
similar setup). IBM was
...
Argh, late night email. That should read HP 9830 was
about $10K *less*.
A pretty amazing deal, given that the IBM 5100 was priced under $10K for
a minimal configuration.
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.
Eric