Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:01:26 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Pricing a moderate workstation machine for development and co nferencing (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990306230115.3884A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On asking Dell for more details. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:31:44 -0600 From: "Sales, US" <US.Sales@Gateway.com> To: 'Robert Watson' <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Subject: RE: Pricing a moderate workstation machine for development and co nferencing Dear Robert At this time we do not offer computer systems without Microsoft application software. We are aware of the growing demand for Linux and its many flavors. We are currently watching the development of this market at this time. I will be happy to go over the specifics of the components if you are researching for drivers. Let us know if there is anything that we can do and we'll be happy to help. Please check our web site for more information on what computers options are available. -- Kent Seaton Gateway Internet Specialist mailto:sales@gateway.com <mailto:sales@gateway.com> Hours: Friday-Tuesday 8am-5pm, Central Standard Time. Please include all correspondence when replying with further questions. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Watson [mailto:robert@cyrus.watson.org] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 3:12 PM To: sales@gateway.com Subject: Re: Pricing a moderate workstation machine for development and conferencing Gateway, Your lack of response on pricing a simple workstation is a little disappointing. It has been over a month now since I requested a quote. Is there a problem I should be aware of? On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > Gateway, > > I'm currently pricing a machine to use as a development workstation. I > was wondering if you can provide quotes by email? > > If so, here's an approximate description: > > PII 400 or 450Mhz > 128MB of memory > 21" monitor > No need for 3d acceleration on the video card, but performance for video > conferencing an large-scale window systems/frame buffers is important. > Similarly, a sound card suitable for use in moderate quality > video-conferencing. > 10/100baset ethernet card > SCSI disk subsystem with: > At least 6gig hard disk (largely disk cache for a distributed file > system such as AFS) > CD-ROM drive (any speed) > Ergonomic keyboard, mouse > No modem > No need for a backup device > No Applications > FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE operating system, with X-windows (XIG or XFree86) > > Please let me know about how much such a machine might cost at current > prices; it might be a little while before I get around to buying it, but > I'd like to get a feel for the approximate cost for a reasonable machine > is. > > Robert N Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > > > Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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