mburke@eecs.wsu.edu (Matthew Burke - grad student) (11/28/90)
I have the opportunity to buy a used Toshiba T1000 and would like people to e-mail me their opinions on the deal. All I am looking for is something that will do word processing for my wife and will allow me to log on to my school's mainframe from home. The system is a T1000 with 1.2 Meg of Ram, a 720k floppy, Panasonic 1091 printer, Microsoft Word (which I like and my wife is familiar with), DOS 2.1.1 and some utility programs for $1200 or best offer. Pros and cons anyone? Thanks in advance, Matt Burke mburke@cs2.wsu.edu -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Matthew M. Burke mburke@cs2.wsu.edu % % Where am I and what am I doing in this handbasket? % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Mr. Spench) (11/30/90)
In article <1990Nov28.062635.11032@eecs.wsu.edu>, mburke@eecs.wsu.edu (Matthew Burke - grad student) writes: > > I have the opportunity to buy a used Toshiba T1000 and would like people > to e-mail me their opinions on the deal. > > All I am looking for is something that will do word processing for my > wife and will allow me to log on to my school's mainframe from home. > > The system is a T1000 with 1.2 Meg of Ram, a 720k floppy, Panasonic > 1091 printer, Microsoft Word (which I like and my wife is familiar > with), DOS 2.1.1 and some utility programs for $1200 or best offer. > > Pros and cons anyone? Why spend $1200 on a used system when a new system would cost you about the same: T1000 with 768K card = $850 1091 Printer (or equiv) = $200 Word = $200 total = $1250 I think $1200 for this used system is a rip-off. I wouldn't pay any more than $800 for this. If you have $1200 to spend, you can easily find what you need new. > > Thanks in advance, No problem. I hate seeing people getting ripped off. > > Matt Burke > mburke@cs2.wsu.edu > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > % Matthew M. Burke mburke@cs2.wsu.edu % > % Where am I and what am I doing in this handbasket? % > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%