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Education supplier RM has told customers they can buy discounted third-party hardware from Misco after finally shuttering its own reselling operation and closing the PC production order book. A hardware referral agreement was always on the cards, as revealed by CEO David Brookes last month and Misco has beaten rivals to what …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Of course PC hardware is single digit margins. Its not bloody furniture or cars.

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      Mushroom

      single digit margin?

      And that's only with the warranty attached...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Impressive

    Expensive education supplier funnels educators to expensive reseller.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    End of an era

    Whatever your opinion of RM, it is the end of an era.

    Throughout the 80s and into the 90s, RM was there in my schooldays, my first experiences of x86 PCs.

    RM Nimbuses, the old 8086s then the 386s which were BNC networked to boot off a server.

    The occasional standalone machine with Clarisworks installed.

    They're as much a part of my childhood as Mac Classics.

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