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Re: Value
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Gary Sielaff <[log in to unmask]>
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Gary Sielaff <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 May 2001 10:26:04 -0700
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It is 100 times more but the initial dollar amounts are 400 for a pc and
40,000 for an A400
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Value


> Ok....
>
> Would you rather pay $100,000 for a PC that would last 15 years or pay
$1500
> for a PC that lasts 5 years?
>
> The PC was designed to be cost effective and so its components are not as
> rugged as those found in that HP3000 you paid 100 times as much for. Also,
> how many of those HP3000 components have been replaced over the years?
>
> Different tools for different jobs.
>
>
> Comments are my own.. not my employers... etc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Toback [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:08 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] Value
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Yesterday, the console on one of our HP3000s died. The console, an
> > HP2648, was 23 years old; the HP3000 is 14 years old and
> > still doing its
> > job. I replaced it with a 21-year-old console (an HP2647).
> >
> > This weekend, I'm taking a bunch of five-year-old PCs down to the
> > recycling center.
> >
> > How can PCs be mature if they never live to the age of
> > puberty, let alone
> > majority?
> >
> > -- Bruce
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------
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