Unix box for $10 a month! Is this a scam?

[Paul Vixie Esq]

In article <1637 at ncoast.UUCP> btb at ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
>Has anybody heard of, or actually have one of the Symmetric 375 machines
>from SYMMETRIC Computer Systems, San Jose? [...] it is a portable box [...]
>running BSD 4.2 with all utilities... everybody's favorite languages (f77,
>Pascal LISP PROLOG BASIC apl, and even C)... it has half the speed of a 750,
>a 50 meg Winchester drive... four serial ports... AND, you can take it home
>at night!  They sell it for $4995 (~$9000 with ethernet) and their number is:
>
>		408 279 0700

Yes, I own one of these.  It is all it's advertised to be.  Useful options
are:

	replace 50Mb/45ms drive with an 86Mb/27ms:		~$1200
	scsi port:						~$850
	replace 800K floppy drive with cartidge tape drive:	~$600
	replace 2Mb RAM with 8Mb RAM:				~$2900

All prices from memory.  Call SYMMETRIC for exact details.

Although I have had some software problems with this machine, they have
evened out as of the latest release, and many were my own fault anyway.

I can reccommend the machine.

I don't work for SYMMETRIC.
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San Mateo, Calif    uucp: {ptsfa,qantel,fortune,crash,winfree}!vixie!paul