I guess what really saddnes me is that you can't
buy a PC built like
an HP9830 (metaphorically) at any price. [...]
You can't? Or you can't do so easily and conveniently?
[earlier in the same mail]
On the otehr hand [the HP9830] cost rater hmnore than
a family car at
the time.
I once saw a machine that, as far as I could tell, was architecturally
a peecee, but mechanically it was amazing. Honestly, it looked
designed for remote telemetry or some such, the sort of environment
where any kind of service call, instead of involving a truck roll and
half a day's time for a tech, involves chartering a small airplane and
at least two person-weeks of time.
Heck, if you have "rather more than [the price of] a family car" to
spend on it, you might even just spin up a small company and design and
build what you want.
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