On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2317770,00.html
The computer is going to a museum, and Dell gave
him a new computer.
Let me get this straight. Dell get an Altair, which has considerable
value on E-bay, and give a way a PC which has rather less value (it may
well be a faster computer, but). Said PC is also not compatible with
whatever software was in use on the Altair.
And this is a fair exchange?
You need to read the article.
The Dell server and printer and monitor and crap (MS software) they gave
him was worth $15,000. The only Altair ever to get close to that ended up
being a bogus auction. Altairs are typically $2,500 on ebay.
Someone in the feedback section on that page asked the same question about
porting the software. "Wat about the cost of training and porting the
software over?" he asked. Good point.
Couldn't it also have been a 21xx system of some
kind? Or is that
definitely not a PC.
I'm sure that would have counted.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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