rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White) (02/21/88)
In article <3330@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes: >[discussion of 286|386 as a minicomputer for your business deleted] > I did exactly this and have no complaints (it satisfies my clients). I use Microport Unix Sys V/AT on a clone with some other stuff, the breakdown goes like this: AT clone: $1,400 (This was a year ago) 3 Meg o'memory $600 80 Megs of hard drive $800 EGA Monitor $500 Cartridge Tape $750 9 Track Tape $3,500 Nec Printer $1,000 Uport Unix/Merge $700 ======= $9,250 I don't know what a Vax costs, but I'm sure it's much more. I can read from one tape drive -> process -> write to other tape drive which makes it possible to handle larger files than I have free disk space for. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ US SNAIL: 11534 Steele St, Thornton, CO. } Robert White { MA BELL : (303) 252-9090 } ihnp4!upba!qetzal!rcw { HORSE : Jct Platte River & Cherry Creek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~