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From: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards,misc.misc,net.micro.ns32k
Subject: Re: Unix box for $10 a month!  Is this a scam?
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 15:10:13 EST
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In article <1637@ncoast.UUCP> btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
>Has anybody heard of, or actually have one of the Symmetric 375 machines
>from SYMMETRIC Computer Systems, San Jose? [...] it is a portable box [...]
>running BSD 4.2 with all utilities... everybody's favorite languages (f77,
>Pascal LISP PROLOG BASIC apl, and even C)... it has half the speed of a 750,
>a 50 meg Winchester drive... four serial ports... AND, you can take it home
>at night!  They sell it for $4995 (~$9000 with ethernet) and their number is:
>
>		408 279 0700

Yes, I own one of these.  It is all it's advertised to be.  Useful options
are:

	replace 50Mb/45ms drive with an 86Mb/27ms:		~$1200
	scsi port:						~$850
	replace 800K floppy drive with cartidge tape drive:	~$600
	replace 2Mb RAM with 8Mb RAM:				~$2900

All prices from memory.  Call SYMMETRIC for exact details.

Although I have had some software problems with this machine, they have
evened out as of the latest release, and many were my own fault anyway.

I can reccommend the machine.

I don't work for SYMMETRIC.
-- 
Paul A. Vixie       arpa: paul@vixie.UUCP, nike!ptsfa!vixie!paul@seismo.CSS.GOV
San Mateo, Calif    uucp: {ptsfa,qantel,fortune,crash,winfree}!vixie!paul