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- From: testarne@liverpool.media.mit.edu (Thad E Starner)
- Subject: Help me spend money (upgrade)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.174739.22916@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:47:39 GMT
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- I have a 4D/20 (12MHz, 12M ram, 8-bit display, 500M drive, Graphics Revision 1.1)
- and have about $1000 to spend in upgrades (more if a really good upgrade). The
- important things are graphics (particularly X), crunch power, and disk (never
- enough). The suggestions so far are
-
- upgrade to GR 1.2 (faster blitting for X) ~$100
- upgrade to 16M ram something like $1000 (seems expensive)
-
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- Also, a camera digitizer would be nice (There used to be some cheap RS-232 ones
- even).
-
- Can someone give me suggestions, contacts, or better price estimates?
-
-
- BTW, hinv gives:
- 1 12 MHZ IP6 Processor
- FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 1.5
- CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 1.6
- On-board serial ports: 2
- Data cache size: 8 Kbytes
- Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
- Main memory size: 12 Mbytes
- Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 0
- Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
- Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93
- Graphics board: GR1.1
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