SGI: Discussion

pricelist scan

hamei
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Was cleaning off the desk (okay, if you leave it there long enough it will turn to coal) and came across this. Better sit down.

You have to remember that China manipulates their currency, otherwise American products would be much more competitive.

Except these prices are in dollars ...

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I had a pricelist for PDP parts I posted here a long time ago and I think that they wanted like $30,000 for something like 2k of RAM in 1964 when that would have bought you a posh house.

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hamei
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PymbleSoftware wrote:
I had a pricelist for PDP parts I posted here a long time ago and I think that they wanted like $30,000 for something like 2k of RAM in 1964 when that would have bought you a posh house.

If it was a pdp-8 that was probably core memory. There's a reason that would cost $30,000 :D

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the dds4 is cute :P

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The price of the memory upgrades is insane, especially as it's just plain ol' DDR SDRAM.. even in 2002, 2GB ram wasn't *that* expensive, even for registered ECC...

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Well, the good news is that, if you're an SGI rep, you only have to sell one Fuel per year to meet your quotas.

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That is friggin' incredible, only nine years ago! That's when my Octane2 was built, and you have to figure the Octane2 price list would be even higher since it was supposedly a genuine workstation, i.e. would keep working even if it got sucked into the vortex of an F5 tornado. As long as the AC cord didn't come unplugged... :P

It must have been a painful moment for SGI when they realized that that market no longer existed... :x

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vishnu wrote:
It must have been a painful moment for SGI when they realized that that market no longer existed... :x


What a shock it must have been for them when they realized that you can buy about 100 PC for the price of a fuel.

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mia wrote:
vishnu wrote:
It must have been a painful moment for SGI when they realized that that market no longer existed... :x


What a shock it must have been for them when they realized that you can buy about 100 PC for the price of a fuel.


There was some R&D to recoup, but you have to wonder how much it was marked up back then especially when you could assume most of that generation of hardware's R&D went to the Origin 3x0.

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I'd love to know how the Chinese price list compared to one of a similar vintage from North America. I wouldn't be surprised if those prices were 5 to 10 times higher than the rest of the world.

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Wrote the following at May 7, 2013, 7:12 a.m...
jpstewart wrote:
I'd love to know how the Chinese price list compared to one of a similar vintage from North America. I wouldn't be surprised if those prices were 5 to 10 times higher than the rest of the world.

Spot on! One year later (March 2005), US pricing before discounts:
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WF-700V12-1036 Silicon Graphics Fuel V12 Graphics 700MHz
R16000/4MB Cache, 1GB Memory,36GB System
Disk. Order Monitor Separately
$14,595

It's $71,762 in hamei's list ...

But it's the big iron where things really hurt, e.g. in 2006 you paid $25K for a GE16-4, $45k - $55K for an RM etc etc.

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