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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: A LAN for my home
Message-ID: <1991May1.163857.19047@uncecs.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 16:38:57 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.070815.161@weyrich.UUCP> <1991Apr30.003954.16490@ism.isc.com>
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kirkd@ism.isc.com (kirk davis) writes:

>In article <1991Apr29.070815.161@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Dr. Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>>I am soon to build a house, and want a house which will have all the
>>important amenities for the years ahead, like for example a LAN.
>>
>>[my wife might disagree as to what the important amenities might be :-)]

>Doctor,
>  Twisted pair is just ticket. You will of course need a hub, but you can 
>pick one of these babies up for about $900 (don't tell your wife).

>Kirk Davis (kirkd@ism.isc.com)
 
   For about $1400 you can get 2 Macintoshes (Classics, floppy) from 
a NYC dealer.  Add about $60 for 2 network interfaces to twisted
pair (PhoneNet).   For hard disk Macs, used Mac Pluses with a hard
disk should be at least $750 each.  
   Of course, if you mean a network of DOS machines, you'll
have to spend a few hundred to run Soft PC on both Macs.  If you also
spend a couple hundred for extra RAM, later this month with System
7.0 system software, BOTH of the Macs would be file servers.
-- 
Dan Dlugose
Mac support specialist
Internet: dlugose@uncecs.edu
UNC Educational Computing Service,  until July 1991  (then freelance?)