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- From: foster@nzkites.UUCP (Foster Schucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
- Keywords: When will MWC learn ... ???
- Message-ID: <q658VB2w164w@nzkites.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:40:43 GMT
- References: <om87VB1w165w@softin.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Kiteflyers Roost
- Lines: 48
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- rjt@softin.lonestar.org (Richard Threlkeld) writes:
- > In any case,
- > the CMS drives are more popular in general. I would guess that most
- > of COH's base are converts from MS-DOS and very few have SCSI
- > controllers. Even if they did have them, the added cost of a SCSI tape
- > drive will often dictate which tape drive to get.
-
- Pick me for this. I run tons of MS-DOS stuff. The one and only reason
- I als run Coherent is that it will run with my MS-DOS system and not be a
- pig about it. I'm a computer USER. I USE the computer to do work. I
- treat my system the same way I do my tools, I want to be able to quickly
- do more and better things with my time, the tools assist me.
-
- The world of Unix is fine, some things I can do in Unix quicker and I
- use Unix for that. If you say that the entry to Unix is $40,000 then I
- need to balance how much time I save vs the $40,000. With Coherent I get
- Unix for the cost of a cheap 286 and some disk plus $100 for the software.
- So on the open market for $500 I can get Unix. I upgrade to the latest
- version and now it costs $600, cause now I need a $200 386 mother board.
-
- As a user, I decide to safeguard my work and back it up. So I copy 100Mb
- to 72 3.5" floppies. I look at the time and the cost of a Jumbo drive
- and go do the cost justification analysis. So for $220 I can save about
- 50 hours, well worth the cost. Now I hear that I need a SCSI board and
- a SCSI driver. Umm serious dollars. (And BTW can you say "Incompatible
- standard = SCSI" I knew you could!!! )
-
- I think that MCW has done a great thing. You can be a Unix guru for the
- low low price and it's an option available to most people. Why bag it
- down with requiring SCSI hardware.
-
- > If it was free, I
- > would choose a carosel of 5Gb Dat drives (200Gb total), but nothing is
- > really free.
-
- Nope, not me, I'll take mountable IDE drives to do disk to disk copies and
- someone named Lisa to swap them for me ;-)
-
-
- Hardware is getting cheap. I can get a 500 MB IDE drive AND controller for
- $950. (Fuji drive and $18 controller) I can't touch that price with a
- SCSI device. I'd rather spend my $$$ on more stuff, not some hardware that
- costs more for no apparent reason.
-
- Thank you for allowing me to waste network bandwidth venting my spleen.
-
-
- Foster Schucker (foster@nzkites.uucp) (1-215-458-8354 (voice))
-