Responses inline:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:39:47PM -0400, linc wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > 
> > > > (6) DECstation 5000/260 w/480 MB RAM & 36 GB Disk running NetBSD
> > > > (5) DECstation 5900/260 w/480 MB RAM & 36 GB Disk running NetBSD
> > 
> > He's lying..  He's got to be Lying.  Either that or it's 6 Dec's with a
> > *TOTAL* of 480 ram and 36gig which equals 40meg and 6gig a piece :-)
> 
> I saw 5000/200s (might have been 240s, but I'm pretty sure they were 200s)
> with hundreds of megabytes of RAM when I was at DEC.  Actually, they must
> have been 200s -- I left not long after the 5000/200 release and wasn't
> around very frequently thereafter.

I bought my RAM (at probably inflated prices) from a scrapper who got a
whole bunch of /200s with 128 MB RAM each.  I bought *all* of his RAMs.

> And, of course, a 36GB SCSI disk can now be had for well under $200, if
> you're willing to use an SCA disk with a converter.

I work for IBM, so I got employee price on bulk surplus, so I got my
drives for under $100.  They were 68-pinners that I use with converters.

Peace...  Sridhar

> -- 
> Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
>     And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
>   foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
> 						   William Styron
>