Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!martin From: martin@littlei.UUCP (martin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Bell Tech Pricing Keywords: Advertising Pranks Message-ID: <294@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 88 23:10:46 GMT Organization: Intel Corp., OMSO UNIX Development, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 18 With all the discussion recently about unix for 386 flavorings I decided to do some price getting. Bell Tech has been advertising Unix in almost all of the Unix trade rags. The add says "UNIX for as low as $145". After hearing about the price hikes for Microport and other vendors, it sounded cheap. I called the folks up and asked them how much for just a software distribution (not the X package or additional non-v.3.? packages). They told me $235. I asked them what I could get for the advertised price of $145 and they said "Just the AT&T license". Well that does alot of good! I can't insert the license into the PC and boot it... (humor). Currently they are only shipping v.3.0 with 3.1 due out at the end of July. I thought that I would pass this on to fellow netters. ---- These are the thoughts of myself no my employer ---- _/_ | ______ __. __ / o ____ | textronix!reed!littlei!zeus:martin / / / <_(_/|_/ (_<__<_/ / < |