Re: New 250 better than 170's from IBM on eBay

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So are we saying they are $4,800 & $8,300 or
$8,500 & $12,000 ?? (from response below from David Bruce
it would seem the latter prices-worst announce letter "clarity" in a while!)
Still a good deal, except they don't have Websphere Studio to get compilers,
another $3,600! That makes the total packages $12,100 & $15,600.
like buying a car - it's all in the details.
See http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/mod250.htm
for cpw ratings, but prices at ibm.com not updated yet.
the e-bay 170's will take about as much $$ to get all that software, disk,
memory, ethernet, etc going. Also 250's eligible for Partnerworld discounts.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: New 250 better than 170's from IBM on eBay


> From: Charlie Massoglia <cmassoglia@voyager.net>
>
> How about a brand new model 250 feature 0297 with 256MB main storage, two
> 17.54 GB 10k rpm disk units, 100/10 Mbps Ethernet, OS/400 (P05), Query,
SQL,
> and Client Access for $4,800?  Of course it's only got a 4GB tape drive.
>
> Finally a relatively affordable personal AS/400.  Unbelievable!
>
> -----------------------
>
> IBM's RESPONSE, from David Bruce:
> Our announcement letters don't reprint all of the existing features
> that are available on a product, only the new or changed features.
> The announcement letter printed the $4,800 and $8,300 for feature
> codes 0297 and 0298, respectively. These new codes take the place of
> the original feature codes 2295 and 2296. The additional element is
> the price of the Model 250 itself: $3,700. If you add the $3,700 to
> the other two figures you get the $8,500 and $12,000 that you
> printed, and that is correct.
>
>
>
>
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