Subj : Re: Slow PPP/IE with 8 MB
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Wade Humeniuk
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 02:17 pm

Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:

> In 1998 some people were using P2s running at 300 MHz with 32MB RAM or 
> more.  Those machines are now considered garbage by most.  *Nobody* buys 
> them, because you can get better (used) machines that are even more 
> quiet, several times as fast, and that still cost less than $200.
> 
> Go find a decent, old machine that works and sell you Mac to the museum.
> 

Or go even crazier and get a

http://vfxweb.com/index.php?productid=8655

for $29US or if that is too steep, get a

http://vfxweb.com/index.php?productid=7689

for $9US.

At my children's school a business gave 150 PIII's.
(Some of them end up going to the dump
since there are too many to use).  They have a small
mountain of hard drives, cards and stacks of monitors
in one room.

Wade

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