Rising popularity/interest in the 3B1; S/B remanufactured?
Paul Giovacchini
orac at chinet.chi.il.us
Fri Jan 11 19:47:38 AEST 1991
In article <37826 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>Informally received information here indicates we're getting a LOT of converts
>to the 3B1 from other computers (IBM-PCs, Macs, Amigas, and a few others) plus
>a rising interest by college and university students who need an "affordable"
>UNIX box that runs reasonably fast.
>Veddy, veddy inneresting. It DEFINITELY appears there's a huge, untapped
>market for low-priced and reliable UNIX systems. I wonder if AT&T's gonna
>be sorry they dropped the 3B1/UNIXPC/PC7300 because it seems that NOW is the
>time they should be selling them. I'm now getting 5-10 phone calls a DAY from
>people asking where they can buy these systems.
I am one of them. I had a klone 386sx that I used mostly as a
800 by 600 SVGA terminal ( Procomm + ). To make a long story short,
I traded the 386sx for a 7300/3b1 ( upgraded machine ) and a 3b2-310.
I thought I was going to use the 3b1 for a door stop and the 3b2 for
learning Unix internals. Well, it is the other way around. The 3b2
is the door stop ( Forsale too! ) and the 3b1 is up 24 hours. I
love this machine. I don't even miss Win/3 or all my .gifs. Had
a few problems with it, but ever since its last Mass dust bunny kill,
not a single problem.
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Paul J. Giovacchini | My file system is in such bad shape...
( orac at prowlr.chi.il.us ) | When fsdb saw it, it dumped core twice!
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