Steve Dirickson writes:

> Aren't we already there? It looks like an end-user-useable (but not
>  developer-useable) 918LX would be around $15K. As I remember it, we paid
>  something like $18K for the dual-P133 HP NetServer LS/2 a couple of years
>  ago, and current NetServer LX's with dual PPro-200s and 128MB RAM are
>  around $17K (and that's with no hard drive). Those prices are not only in
>  the same ballbark, they're sitting next to each other on the bench.

Unfortunately, that price is not low enough to get a "908" into a dentist's
office, or a hardware store, or jewelry store. The price has to be somewhere
between 5-8K, at the most. Whatever software is put on the machine is sure to
double the installed system's price. The surest way to keep software costs
down is to set the hardware prices as low as they possibly can be.

I reiterate my original offer. If HP builds this machine and limits the
concurrent number of users to four, then we are more than pleased to offer
QueryCalc for $450 for this size of machine.

Wirt Atmar