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I saw this computer in the weekly Fry's ad in the Arizona Republic yesterday (I live in Phoenix), and I was curious what "Linux Version 1.3 shell" means. The ad here also mentioned that this computer is "upgradeable to Windows XP." Jeffrey Pyne UNIX Systems Administrator WorldatWork 14040 N. Northsight Blvd. Scottsdale, AZ 85260-3601 Phone: 480-905-5977 Fax: 480-483-8352 Cell: 480-206-3163 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Phillips [mailto:wfp at shoestringprojects.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:25 PM To: discuss at blu.org Subject: Interesting deal, if you have a friend in CA ... This was passed on to me by a friend in California. Seems it is an in-store deal only (see below), but if you have a Left Coast friend you can trust ... well ... Well, the hot tip going around JPL on a cheap PC is too good to pass up. A $249 computer. Details: GigiPro 733MHz (VIA C3 733MHz CPU) 128MB PC133 SDRAOM 20GB HDD 52x CD-ROM 56k V.90 fax/modem 10/100Mbit Ethernet 1.44 floppy, keyboard, mouse, spkrs Linux Version 1.3 shell w/email, web browsing, word processing (but when you get it home you can reformat it to Win2k without problems if you wish). The disadvantage is it's at Fry's. If you don't mind that, then the word is that it's a very good deal. One engineer started with just one machine, and now has two for his kids and has bought 4 for friends/family. I'm going to buy one or more to (finally) upgrade Linh's office computers. She complains the office has no money, but this she can't pass up either. I figure the price is so low that it's a throwaway computer. If anything ever broke, you'd toss it and get another. Their was specuation that the CPU company went under and this was just a liquidation, but from looking at their website (www.viatech.com) they look like they are staying healthy building support chips for the latest AMD CPUs and they came up with this very cool running CPU on thier own. I see the system at www.frysoutpost.com, search for *exactly* Cyrix, selling for $349, but I confirmed that at least at the City of Industy store the walk-in price is $249. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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