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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: R
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:46:04 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <waterman.724975301@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> waterman@cs.brandeis.edu writes:
- >> "R" is being sold for parts, Cleveland added. "It cost us three
- >>million bucks," he said, "and we're selling it for $3,000."
- >
- >I didn't know you had that kind of spare change laying about, Scott.
-
- Nope. I'm not the fellow buying it. I'm holding out until they surplus the
- "Y" machine, which is considerably smaller (it's an 830).
- --scott
-
- When I was an undergraduate (not all that long ago), there was a fellow
- at the school where I was attending who was selling a Hazeltine 2000 terminal
- for a couple of hundred bucks. This was a fair price at the time for a
- terminal that didn't have lower case, since the campus computer systems
- didn't have lowercase either.
-
- In any event, he put posters up all over campus offering this machine for
- sale, and in big letters at the top was "It's like having Cyber in your room!"
- I thought about this briefly, and decided that I didn't really want Cyber
- in my room. Where would I put the motor-generator sets, first of all?
- Anyway, my RA at the time was upset enough about the PDP-11, which he kept
- trying to insist was a second refrigerator and trying to get it removed.
-