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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

LP20BC Line printer, 96 character scientific	 →21,500

24 additional communications ports (making 32)  →7,200

Fortran (notes 2 and 3)				  →7,500

	Total for equipment and software (note 1):		 →α$370,700

With 6.5α% sales tax including Dial-a-Bus and .5α% shipping insurance,
this comes to α$396,649.00.


Notes:

1. Terminals (and anything else not included in this list) are not included in
   this list (note 5).  The plan is to borrow or rent temporarily
   until we can get a high quality cheap display system - by summer 1977.

2. The version of BASIC that is run at the AI lab will be transplanted to 2040.
   APL will be provided, either by adapting free software or 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 quotes this price if we order before the end of June.  Salesman
   speculates that price may rise after that.  Getting an RPO6-based system
   requires waiting till Oct. or Nov. 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, and
we are contemplating an additional eight line group going to modems
and dial-up lines for users who have access to other terminals.

	This hardware configuration has been approved by the Provost as
the basis for negotiation with D.E.C.