paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) (10/30/86)
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