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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:01:13 -0700
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <drjuice@ieee.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Cinnecting W4 to eCS and Win

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Hi, Ray - Actually, I generally spend about $2100 for mine. Before I
owned the XT, I bought a brand new PC Portable for myself for cash.
Then, it was a PS/2-80 which was the equivalent of a gamer's machine in
terms of the goodies and which came in at $8100 from the University's
Bookstore. Next was the first of my Sony Vaios (all three notebooks and
all still running). The first two were about $2100; the third I got
with all the bells and whistles for a gamer's system (fastest dual core
processor), but without the extra pieces I bought (2 four hour
batteries, a charger unit, an extra power cord for the charger unit and
an 8GB memory stick duo pro) it was also $2100. The extra pieces and a
four year they-come-to-me warranty were an extra $1700. Then, there's
my Shuttle that I built with the fastest since processor I could get,
biggest hard drive, 8 extra USB ports -- $871. Late that winter I added
a dual head graphics card and plugged in the two ViewSonic 21" monitors
that I got on black Friday of that year (dual head graphics card =$109,
monitors $71/each). Finally, I needed a dedicated system to run SuSE
Linux and Free BSD on so that I'd have a sandbox. HP dual core notebook
with 250MB HD and 15" screen at Costco this September for $795 + tax.
No more 'puters for a while. ;~)

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\ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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Ray Davison wrote:

> Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. wrote:
>
>> Hi, Gary -
>>
>> Some of us still run XT, a pretty gigantigous, desktop, sand-colored
>> box with a 4-color monitor built in about 1982 or so. Hey, if it
>> computes and we don't care how long the computation takes, why not?
>> I took possession of mine in 1984 as the second owner and fully
>> expect it to be running in 2009 on its 27th anniversary, my 25th of
>> ownership. ;~)
>>
>> If I could afford the electric bill and had that much physical space,
>> I'd take a friend up on the offer of a 4381 with a 3350
>> head-of-string and a 3350 connected to it, running VM/CMS (talk about
>> old operating systems!!!!).
>
>
> I had been scanning the world of "garage shop" computers when IBM came
> out. But I delayed and the XT was released with something called a
> hard drive. I delayed again and my first was a 286. Mail order
> clone, about $3200 as I recall with the top-of-the-line HDD; 28M. I
> am not sure if I still have it. Somewhere back then Bill Machrone (PC
> Mag) said the PC you want always costs $3000. I guess today you have
> to be a gamer to spend that much.
>
> Ray
>
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