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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47528 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3713 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2435 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder.parcplace.com!imp From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <CA11FI.u6@boulder.parcplace.com> Sender: news@boulder.parcplace.com Organization: ParcPlace Boulder References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 00:59:41 GMT Lines: 21 In article <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: >In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk >(Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >>Get at least 1GB. The cost per MB on disks >= 1GB is much lower than the >>cost per MB for disks with lower capacities. A 1GB costs around $1050 >>mail order... >Not completely true. I have seen 200MB for <<$300 recently. My hardware price expert friends tell me that no one seems to want drives smaller than 300M, so the prices for them are falling through the floor. A coworker got a 250M IDE hard disk for $300 recently, so I suspect that the smaller drives are almost free. And to think I paid $450 for a 40M ST251-1 a few years ago for my DEC Rainbow. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.