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[OT] Living with the past

[OT] Living with the past

2004-11-07 by Paul Schreiber

http://www.oldcomputers.net/ads/ads.html

Paul S.
sort of misses the old days

Re: [motm] [OT] Living with the past

2004-11-07 by John Neilson

I just skimmed these, and the one that really caught my eye was the
one that proudly announced memory for:

		2 cents a byte!

What would the 1.5 gigs in my G4 go for back then, $30,720?

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Re: [motm] [OT] Living with the past

2004-11-07 by Neil Bradley

> http://www.oldcomputers.net/ads/ads.html

I get "unknown host" from 3 different DNS servers all fed through
different backbones...

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Neil Bradley             "The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of
Synthcom Systems, Inc.    our marketing combined with the stupidity of our
                          people.." -  Bill Maher

Re: [motm] [OT] Living with the past

2004-11-08 by J.D. McEachin

At 11:43 AM 11/7/2004 -0800, Neil Bradley wrote:
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>I get "unknown host" from 3 different DNS servers all fed through
>different backbones...

They got FARKed this morning, so they probably exceeded their bandwidth quota & pulled the plug.  :(

JDM