Re: small alpha for auction ;)

[Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com>]

Gee, that makes me feel a whole lot better. why for 1/2 million US dollars.

Davies, Huw wrote:

> > From: Uncle George [mailto:gatgul@voicenet.com]
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> > can someone tell me why ( or even if ) the original cost was over 1 
> > million dollars?
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> > Rob B wrote:
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> > > http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2081503485
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> > > hey - it's only AU$4K at the moment :)
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> You've got to remember we're talking Aussie dollars here at the time this
> system was purchased the exchange rate was probably close to AUS$1.0 = US$0.50.
> As a customer in 1999 we purchased a couple of well configured 8400s and some
> storage and it cost considerably more than AUD$1 million.
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