Original Prices of DEC Equipment

Well I remember my DEC salesman's price book well enough. In 1977 they where about a half inch thick, bound in blue and contained a print out from a DEC10 system reduced to about 2/3 size. The numbers in the pricelist did not really reflect the price at which systems were sold. Individual systems would be designed on paper and the prices worked out from the options in the book. By the time extras had been added in and discounts taken out you could not really equate them to the prices in the book. You then wrote out an order set (yes by hand) and got sign off's from sales management, field service and the product line (marketing). I think they then got faxed to the US and entered onto OAS (Order Admin System) One price I can remember is that in 1976 an LA36 30cps printing terminal was about ?900 UK list. (Has anybody got a UK one they don't want?) Mind you different product lines might well have had their own list prices. Regards ? Rod Smallwood ? ? -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul Anderson Sent: 22 August 2011 19:07 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Original Prices of DEC Equipment Hi Rob, I have several old DEC US standard price books which would cover some of your equipment. The MVII would probably have a Qxxxx-xx system number on it, which would be for a particular hardware configuration, and usually software. The MVII probably had dozens, if not hundreds of configurations. The books were published quarterly then, and configurations and prices could change with every printing. Different schools got different educational discounts, and different companies received different discounts. So it was kind of a retail guideline. I assume there was a UK version. Paul On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote: I couple