Re: Model 600, part of history?

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leo---

>A Business Partner told my client, today, that the model 600 was history
>and he should be looking at a model 170 instead? Any thruth to that
statement?

Sure seems reasonable to me. The CPW of the span of the two lines are
comparable and although today the Model 170 is a single-processor, don't
expect it to say that way for long. Disk spaces and slots may the Model
170's (as it exists today) big stumbling block (the Model 170 only supports
85mb--what's the 600 do there?)

I'd bet a night with a drunken cheerleader that IBM ultimately scales the
Model 170 (and the form factor it represents) out the wazoo!

rp





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