[geeks] what is the world coming to...

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Wed Apr 10 01:05:25 CDT 2002


On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 11:01 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:


>   Yeah but...while I have very little experience with college (never
> attended one) I have hung out at a few.  None that I've seen have THAT
> kind of hardware.  Heck, UMCP had a network of SPARCstation IPXs as
> distributed fileservers as late as 1997 or so.
>
>   I suppose 600GB of disk CAN cost a fortune if you really want it to.

I can make it cost even more, truuust me. <grin>  (I want to dry out my 
stock options!)

At least where I went to school, we were pretty up-to-date (private 
university), we got our first SPARCstaion in '88 or '89, methinks.  Tech 
schools need good 'puters.

-Pete



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