Re: tlug: More Sparcstation progress

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> The better news: the 340 meg SCSI drive I bought for 3500 yen not only
> works, it turned out to really be a 540.  The store mis-labeled it.
> BUUUUUUAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!   :-)

... unless, of course, it has so many bad sectors that it _is_ a 340 ...

> Yes, I'm not making this up. Chris is my witness.  They want 430,000 yen
> for an Ultra 1+ with 32 meg and about a gigabyte disk drive. 

True.  They also wanted (Jonathan, help me out here) around 60,000 for a
lightly loaded IPC, and about double that for a SS2.

John Little, thank you for your very existence ;)

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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