What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

[Charles Anthony]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Andy Cloud <r3trohub at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're willing to answer it would also be interesting to know what drove
> you to spend as much as you did on that particular computer?
>

Not money spent per se, but recently a Multics user ran the billing cycle
(apparently not setting it up correctly):

Disk usage for 12/31/00  1900.0 est Mon to 12/25/16  1304.4 est Sun



  s-qta   s-use       s-charge   d-qta   d-use       d-charge   lev path

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229143   47192  $7,662,137.94  204933     733    $116,590.16     0 >

   4000    1157    $175,013.75       0      20                    1
>system_control_1

   1000     504     $10,972.03       0       2                    2
>system_control_1>syserr_log

    400     263     $43,520.67       0       3                    1
>system_library_obsolete

   6000    2823    $476,645.36    1000      30      $4,780.34     1
>system_library_standard

   6000    2939    $486,339.00       0       2                    1
>system_library_tandd

   6000    2612    $458,486.06    1000      27      $4,442.88     1
>system_library_tools

  10000    6516    $766,673.19    1000      29      $3,313.04     1
>system_library_unbundled

   1890       0                   3690       1        $160.69     1
>user_dir_dir

   3000     295      $5,586.83    5000      23      $2,603.30     2
>user_dir_dir>SysAdmin

   2000    1947    $148,208.64       0      12
3               SysAdmin>admin

   5000      13      $2,048.54    5000       9      $1,446.25
2               SysDaemon

   1000       2        $321.39    1000       2        $321.39
2               Daemon

    100       0                    100       2        $321.39
2               Operator

     10       0                     10       2        $321.39
2               Terminals

   5000       0                   5000       3        $327.71
2               HFED

   1000     451     $93,884.64     100      21      $3,326.68
2               SysEng

   1000      71        $448.49     100       1        $160.69
2               Guest

   1500      15        $965.93    2000       7        $643.37     1
>daemon_dir_dir

    500       0                      0       1                    2
>daemon_dir_dir>cards

   5000      33      $4,994.39    5000       3        $482.08     1 >site

   1000       0                   1000       1        $160.69     1
>system_library_auth_maint

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290543   66833 $10,336,246.50  235933     934    $139,402.04       SUBTOTALS



                                526476   67767 $10,475,648.50       TOTALS
(SEGMENTS + DIRECTORIES)

-- Charles