29 Sep
1998
29 Sep
'98
7:17 a.m.
On 29 Sep 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
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.
My IBM 5100 came with some of the term sheets used to make the original
sale:
IBM 5100 Model C2 (APL+BASIC+32K): $16,490
Communications Feature 1,062
IBM 5103 Printer: 4,335
I have a price list for the HP 9830 somplace. I'll post the prices when I
find them. According to the IBM sales guy (who later went on to be a
member of the team that put together the 5150, BTW), the stiffest
competition came from Wang, but he couldn't remember the model.
-- Doug