From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 07:29:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03020 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.njcc.com (root@pluto.njcc.com [165.254.117.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02993 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khansen@njcc.com) Received: from njcc.com (khansen.njcc.com [199.224.2.142]) by pluto.njcc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA08200; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:28:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34C4C2C8.5FBB916F@njcc.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:29:12 -0500 From: Ken Hansen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney CC: Amancio Hasty , Andrzej Bialecki , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking References: <199801211017.CAA04279@rah.star-gate.com> <19980121022935.45924@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello, FYI - I just put together a system w/K5/133, 16 Meg, floppy & 2 Meg Video case, keyboard & mouse (all new) for $225, add a CD-ROM for $50, 16 Meg more RAM for $40, and you're at $315. Throw in a network card, $50 (for a good DEC based one) and you're at $365. There is room for an HD in that price (but I had an 850 Meg on the shelf, along with a CD-ROM & RAM). I like the one-floppy OS for a simple use - walking up to any PC w/modem, reboot, and I can call my home network and do LOTS of text-based work in a BSD environment. Similar to QNX One Disk demo system (includes frames-capable browser!). Ken Hansen khansen@njcc.com John-Mark Gurney wrote: > for $450 you could get a 8x cdrom, 32megs ram, 4meg video card (s3 virge > based), k5/133, keyboard, mouse... add $200 to $1000 for a monitor and > you have a nice xterminal... :) > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 > Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 > > Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD