[SunRescue] What Gem did I find?

Mon Mar 26 15:05:59 CST 2001

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> James,
>
> Just curious, but why couldn't they just build an IPC or IPX into the SPARCPrinter? Where I used to work they would simply take an IPC/IPX, fill it with RAM (IIRC) and shove the printer interface card in the box and go from there.
>
> Actually, the printer only used a fraction of the "power" of these workstations, so a lesser system could have been included - this would have added about $1K???

Consider that, according the the sun hardware reference, the IPC and IPX
introduced at $7995 and $9995 respectively.  So, it would've added a bit
more than $1k =)

--Kurt