31 May
2002
31 May
'02
5:15 p.m.
At 11:54 PM 31/05/2002 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
PS: what are those Aquisition values? Are those
original purchase
prices prorated for inflation? 45 thousand bucks seem to be high
even for an RA81. But what was the original purchase price
back then?
It's been a while but in 1983 (maybe '84) I was involved with purchasing
some of the first RA81s in Australia and $45K each is about what we paid
for them. This included educational discount and in those days an
Australian dollar was probably worth more than a US one, so $45K "retail"
sounds about right. Let's see, that's less than $100/Mb!
Of course we were badly bitten by the glue problem that RA81s had, and the
two original drives were replaced several times. In fact the HDAs were
replaced so frequently that Joe (our Digital engineer) and I had it down to
less than 20 minutes....
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