> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
>
> > > I bought an external 500GB USB2 backup disk for a home system
> > > yesterday for a couple of hundred bucks.
>
> > You are not doing an apples-to-apples comparison.
>
> Yes I do know the difference and I know it's not an apples to
> apples comparison. The point is that the drives for these
> cheap and cheerful PC wing-dings are the same and you can
> actually buy out of the box RAID solutions for not a lot of
> dough. There is some uniqueness in the mf solution, but the
> raw hardware cost doesn't go close to explaining the price
> customers pay. Can you say gouging boys and girls?
An example of the "free market" at its worst. Prices are "what the
traffic will bear", because the "traffic" does not yet perceive
alternatives as viable.
How much would an IBM mainframe cost today if the Amdahl Corp. had never
existed?
-jc-
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