> <sigh> I guess this is better than going postal. Still, I think to
> myself, "8 years of college for ∗this∗?!"
>
> Chub - deeply analog
>
I suppose part of it is recalling I paid $6700 for a Zeos 386 case/motherboard,
1 floppy, a Video7 VGA card (first card that could really do 1024 x 768), a
120MB drive and a NEC monitor (the monitor alone was $1500).
The Micronix motherboard was all ∗through-hole∗ 22V10 PALs. I counted like 140
of them (other motherboards used chip sets from Chips and Technologies). The
motherboard alone (no processor) pulled 34A at +5V. I paid like $299 for a Cyrix
387 math co-processor and this was "a great deal". Ah, the good old days.....
Paul S.