On 24 Jul 2008 06:56:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William H. Blair) wrote: >Regardless, it was still an RPQ (no purchase price >listed in the sales manual), and so darn horribly >expensive [at the time] that no shop in its right >mind would even consider doing so (hence my question >about you being at a US Government shop, which I >have some experience with myself -- particularly >their general insanity and stupidity), because ...
Sometimes there were legal reasons that ended up with very expensive to buy products that were designed to rent. The story was that there would be one customer who purchased the highest end copying machine - IBM would buy Xerox's and Xerox would buy IBM's. Then they would carefully take them apart and examine them. Everybody else leased, which was what was intended. The sales price was there to satisfy the lawyers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
