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December 11, 1986 Page 3 Our experience with maintenance contracts has been such that their worth has been proven. Therefore, I asked for quotations on maintenance contracts along with initial purchase prices. In evaluating the proposals I found that each vendor was proposing basically the same basic computer unit but they priced the prices differently. On the spreadsheet I developed, a subtotal computer is listed. For all vendors this includes the system unit at 640 KB of memory, one floppy diskette drive and one 20 MB hard disk drive, a monochrome monitor and a keyboard. Ameridata is the low bidder at' $2,673. Two vendors had seperate charges for installation and shipping and two included installation and shipping in the price of the product. Shipping and installation is listed separately on the worksheet. The largest variance in pricing was printers. These varied from $580 to $1,050. The printers proposed were: Unisys Model 115 $ 580 Ameridata: Okidaf-a Model 293 $ 780 Toshiba Model 34'i $1,050 Computoservice: Texas Instruments Model 855 $ 773 Entre Computer: Okidata Model 293 $ 841 In order to evaluate these printers staff learned quite a bit about printers. All printers quoted are dot matrix printers. The printed image is formed by a series of pins on the print head striking an inked ribbon. The number of pins it the print head has a direct relationship on the quality of the printed characters. The more pins the better the quality of the print. This was very evident when we received print samples for each printer. Another marked difference was the quality of graphics each printer could produce. This is important in that our coal is to be able to send the budget book to the printer and to make graphics that pan be used in oral and written presentations. The higher the print quality the higher the price of the printers. Staff recommends purchase of the Toshiba 341 and the Okidata 293 at $1,050 and $780 respectively. These printers are comparable in quality to the better quality printer we purchased from Computoservice at a cost of $1,150 each for our large computer system.