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.cb LOTS HARDWARE CAPITAL BUDGET

(recommended by LOTS Hardware Committee on 1 June 1976 - updated to {date})

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Basic DECSYSTEM 2040 with RP06 substituted for RP04 (note 4)	→α$260,000

192 K core memory additional (makes 256K)	 →α74,500

40 additional communications ports (making 48)  →13,200

Fortran (notes 2 and 3)				  →7,500

Sources for operating system - special arangement	→10,000

	Total for equipment and software (note 1):		 →α$365,200

With 6.0α% sales tax and .5α% shipping insurance,
this comes to α$388,938.00.


Notes:

1. Terminals (and anything else not included in this list) are not included in
   this list (note 5).  The current plan is to buy 50 ADM3 terminals in
   kit form from Lear-Siegler Inc.  They cost α$795 apiece in a total Stanford
   purchase of 100.  They will be amortized to one-third of their value in
   20 months.  The terminals display 24 lines of 80 characters with upper and
   lower case, but don't have cursor control, i.e. they are glass teletypes.

2. The version of BASIC that is run at the AI lab will be transplanted to the 2040.
   APL will be provided later by eventual purchase from DEC at α$7,500.

3. We presume that SAIL or MAINSAIL will be transplanted from AI lab or SUMEX
   by volunteers.

4. Digital quoted this price for an order before the end of June.  Salesman
   speculated that price might rise after that.  Getting an RPO6-based system
   and 256K core
   required waiting till Nov.19 for system delivery, but this seems to
   be the only way of getting somewhat cost-effective disk storage.
   The basic system includes the central processor, 64K 36 bit words of
   memory, 200 megabytes of disk storage (in the RPO6 version), one TU45
   tape drive and controller (45 inches per second and 1600 bytes per inch),
   8 asynchronous lines, the console terminal, and the system software package.

5. The Marx brothers never actually said this.

Still to be added to this budget are cables for the terminals.

The line printer will be a Printronix costing approximately α$5500
and printing 96 character ASCII at about 200 lines per minute.