Re: Model 600, part of history?

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uh, Roger, I wanna SEE that cheerleader BEFORE I consider this bet...:)

Don in DC metro..

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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Roger Pence wrote:

> 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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