[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SAPRC system these days?

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:22:00PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Well, the thinking is to compare the expense of that current machine to,
> say, a Comdisco U30 for under $500 (300 MHz, 512 Meg RAM, 4 Gig HD, Country
> kit, S/H/Tax and a framebuffer).

You wont be able to find $500 U30s forever.

> Is the Blade 100 50%-100% better, to justify the 50%-100% higher price? That
> was my take on them. Besides, I said I have not used an Ultra 5 or 10, but
> most folks wind up looking for cheap bootable SCSI cards and/or CPU upgrades
> to get faster clock speeds and bigger caches.

Depends on what you want to do with it.

Bill

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