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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: What Unix HW/SW I will buy with my $8000
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 10:02:06 GMT
- References: <RG.92Aug29154123@nymph.msel.unh.edu>
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- In article <RG.92Aug29154123@nymph.msel.unh.edu> rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
- >
- >I wanted to buy a Unix box for home, and posted asking what I should buy for
- >$8000.
- >
- >Looks like I will probably buy a
- >- 50MHz 486DX2 EISA w/ SCSI, 8Mb, 340Mb, svga ($3695)
- ^^^ bad idea
- >- replace their monitor with NEC 5fg ($1000)
- >- 1.2Gb disk ($1200)
- >- 2.3Gb tape ($1200)
- ^^^^^^^^^^ can this read QIC-150 cassettes?
- >- Dell Unix ($1000)
-
- 8 MB should be considered an absolute minimum. You wouldn't get
- anything like good performance out of the machine with that little
- memory. Upgrading to 16 MB usually means throwing out the 8 MB of 1 MB
- SIMMs and replacing them with 4 x 4 MB SIMMs.
-
- Most software distributed on tape will come on QIC-24 or QIC-150. If
- your nice 2.3 GB machine can't read them, it's only performing half
- its duty.
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