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From: mcvoy@uwvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap wonderful UNIX boxes
Message-ID: <3449@rsch.WISC.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 12:43:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 12:43:37 1987
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In article <6402@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>Re: SUN3/50 selling for $4995
>
>MC68020 @ 15MHZ, 4MB, 19" 1152 X 900 Monochrome, 2 Serial ports, 1
>Ethernet port, SCSI Port and built in controller, Sun Single User

Macs have SCSI ports, so we're in luck.  I found only one prcie, though I'll
look some more.  What I found is $1200 for 40 meg.  Sorry, but I know that
up 370M drives exist for the MAC, I don't have a price, though.

The thing that I'd look at is a bernoulli box with a hard drive.  They sell
things that have 80meg hard drives with one 20 meg floppy ($50/floppy). 
If you could get that in a 160Meg version, heaven....  Spool sources forever.
Don't dismiss those floppies - I've worked with no hard drive, just using
them.  Access and transfer time is good (access is about 40millaseconds if
it's spinning, you write a ping process to keep it spinning).
-- 
Larry McVoy 	        mcvoy@rsch.wisc.edu  or  uwvax!mcvoy

"It's a joke, son! I say, I say, a Joke!!"  --Foghorn Leghorn