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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
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Subject: Pricing a Sun 3/80 system
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I am trying to price a minimal Sun 3/80 system.  Buying it all from Sun
one pays roughly:

	Base 3/80 w. 19" BW Monitor	$7000
	QIC-150 150M tape		$1600
	104Meg 3-1/2" disk		$2200 ea.  (up to 2 internally) 
	327 Meg disk			$5600
	Media and Manuals		$ 600

Now, from what I can tell, the tape drive is the Archive Viper with an
embedded SCSI controller.  The small disk is the Connor CP-3100 3-1/2"
drive, also with embedded SCSI.  The bigger disk is the 5 1/4" CDC Wren IV
94171-344 (with SCSI).  Has anyone made the "rounds" and found these
things for a more reasonable price?  (A quick glance at Byte shows the
Connor disk for $1000, and an unamed Archive 150M tape for $900, and a
Wren 340meg disk for $2800.)

Also, while I'm at it, does anyone know if the CDC Wren V 94181-702 works
correctly on the above Sun?  The recomended partition tables for this disk
(under SunOS 4.0.3) only indicate 639k total blocks.  (I assume these are
512 byte blocks.)  Is there a known problem that prevents one from using
the last ~half of the disk?

-wolfgang

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