Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!osborn From: osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Upgrade Policies? Summary: 2 Opticals, 1 swap drive Message-ID: <12050@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 30 Aug 90 20:48:50 GMT References: <298@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16 I really cringe at the idea of yet another damned pizza box (YADPB). What I need is for next to offer the new motherboard, in a cube, with 2 reasonably fast 512mb optical drives, cheaply. This would solve pretty much all the problems of the current machine. -price, -insufficient storage, -speed 2 opticals would allow for easy backup, allow for reasonable removable media changes on the fly (run off od0, insert & remove various od1s as needed) and give 1gb of online storage. If I have grey-scale, I don't need color, but I *do* need a functional cheap machine with lots and lots of storage. - -John Osborn -osborn@cs.utexas.edu