Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site steinmetz.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: RE: 000 unix rumors
Message-ID: <686@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 11:37:24 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.686
Posted: Fri Mar 14 11:37:24 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Mar-86 00:47:30 EST
References: <508@isucs1.UUCP> <627@baylor.UUCP> <246@brueer.brueer.UUCP> <445@ucsfcca.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen)
Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 22
Summary: 

In article <445@ucsfcca.UUCP> root@ucsfcca.UUCP (Computer Center) writes:
>> > > Those following the trail of the fabled <$1000 UNIX workstation should check up
>
>
>PC Week for 25 Feb 86 reports an under $1000 IBM PC/XT compatible
>machine* (including hard disk, one floppy, monitor, etc.).
>
>Unfortunately, they only supply 128K at the $999 price; so one would
>also need some memory chips which would take it over $1000.

I believe that lacks a hard disk, too. AMT (same magazine) offers a $@k
AT clone which includes a 20MB hard disk. Still no <$1k machine, tho.
-- 
	-bill davidsen

	seismo!rochester!steinmetz!--\
       /                               \
ihnp4!              unirot ------------->---> crdos1!davidsen
       \                               /
        chinet! ---------------------/        (davidsen@ge-crd.ARPA)

"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward"