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- From: Erik Johnson <erik@phidias.colorado.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:44:28 -0700
- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
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- > : NT requires only 16 Mb. of Ram and will run on a 486DX266 with no problem.
- > : Total PC cost including NT, SCSI Tape Drive 1 gig HD is only 1700. or
- > : less.
- >
- > Where do you shop? A computer with NT, 1G hard drive, and a tape drive is
- > more expensive than a "mere" $1700, unless you have a warez version of
- > NT. So, did you get the album from The Masked Bandit(tm)?
-
- Hmm. (granted, cheap parts)
-
- case, kb, mouse, floppy, io $125
- RAM at $26/meg $416 (or less)
- 486/66 mb w/ chip $150 (or less)
- 1 gig scsi drive $300 (or less)
- video card $100 (or less)
- NT 3.51 $300 (or less)
- monitor $300 (or less)
- ----
- 1691
-
- this doesn't count the scsi tape drive (there are many prices and varieties,
- I don't know what the cheap ones run, as mine was more than $1700 to begin with),
- but the fellow might have been able to find deals on some of these items
- or already had some components (or a really lame video card). This fellow
- could have gotten what he said at the price he said without warranting the
- innuendo that he is a thief. Based on your prior posts, you are rather out
- of touch with hardware costs these days. If you ever get around to upgrading
- (though you will NEVER need to <grin>), drop me a line and I'll give you the
- phone number of my hardware source.
-