drubin@polyof.poly.edu (A1 dave rubin (single) ) (01/25/91)
We have an old dying DN3000 which we use only to run Mentor Graphics. We will need to inject $5000 to repair and upgrade this machine, and at this point I am questioning whether it is really worth it to put any money into this old machine. Unfortunately, Mentor does not yet run on Sun workstations, which we have plenty of. My question: are there any newer HP/Apollo workstations that we can purchase in the $5000-$7000 range or so that would be a better solution than fixing this old DN3000? For Mentor, we would need at least 8MB memory and a large (300MB+) hard disk. Any suggestions would be appreciated ... please respond via E-mail. -- Dave Rubin Polytechnic University drubin@polyof.poly.edu
obrennan@CC3.CC.UMR.EDU (obrennan) (01/25/91)
We have an old dying DN3000 which we use only to run Mentor Graphics.
We will need to inject $5000 to repair and upgrade this machine, and at
this point I am questioning whether it is really worth it to put any money
into this old machine. Unfortunately, Mentor does not yet run on Sun
workstations, which we have plenty of.
My question: are there any newer HP/Apollo workstations that we can
purchase in the $5000-$7000 range or so that would be a better solution
than fixing this old DN3000? For Mentor, we would need at least 8MB
memory and a large (300MB+) hard disk.
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If I'm figuring my prices correctly for Universities (38% discount) and
if I truelly have the latest prices from HP, you could buy:
HP 400t 50MHz 68030 CPU, 50MHz 68882 Floating pt
12MB RAM
2-200MB disks (I don't believe you have to put all of MENTOR on ONE
disk, so that the split of 400MB should be okay).
19" Monochrome
RS232 and Centronics-compatible Parallel
SCSI Interface
IEEE 802.3 (Thick or Thin)
Apollo Token Ring
For $8674. Add $1240 and you could have 16" color. Or save $1240 and have 8MB instead
of 12MB (but I wouldn't suggest buying a machine with less that 12MB for CAD/CAM/CAE
packages).
Hope this helps...
Gerry O'Brennan
Programmer/Analyst II
Computing Services
University of Missouri - Rolla
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