Charles Taylor (charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:06:06 -0500 (EST)
[We're a little off the Softwindows topic here - but by golly I'm
going to talk about Alphas a little. :) ]
> Well, yes, you could, but after setting it up right (RAM, HD) you would be
> "approaching" $299, and the Multia will never be as fast as the K6-300.
> For comparison, I assume a $99 Multia, $100 for a new SCSI HD, and
> at least $80 - $100 for 64 Meg RAM (plus keyboard/mouse), and that
> will have networking, but NO modem...
Cost of the memory is a killer these days when playing with an older
Alpha system, unless you're willing to go used and get memory from
some place like Ebay. Of course, if you're putting together an older
Alpha system to just play around with (who really in these times wants
a Multia-class machine to be his primary workstation?), then using used
components shouldn't be a worry. I've had good luck getting memory
off Ebay for my Multia for about half the cost of the least expensive
sources I could find via pricewatch.
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