[rescue] WTB: SS20 Ram, External SCSI CD

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Nathaniel Grady <nate at grady.is-a-geek.com> wrote:

> #1 is for my "re-introduce Dad to unix" project. I figure anyone
> whose favorite editor was Brief, and writes everyting in LaTeX,
> really needs a Unix box! The SS-20 was my main desktop during
> college, and I left it with my parents when I moved to Houston
> for grad school a year ago. The RasterFLEX-HR and 10krpm drive
> are nice, and I have an SM71 to go in it, but the whole 80mb of
> ram bit kinda sucks. I figure with a pair of SM71's and half a
> gig of ram, it should make a nice machine for editing LaTeX on :-)

I'd reconsider spending money on an SS/20 - I got a very nice SGI
Ingido^2 w/R10K 195 MHz CPU, 512 Meg RAM, 2x 4 Gig HD and framebuffer
(no keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM) for about $100 of e-bay. Granted it was a
very good deal, but you are looking to spend upwards of $150 to get an
SS/20 in shape...

An Ultra 1-170 should cost similar (or less) equiped similarly...

Just a thought...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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