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Re: [PLUG] OT: Hardware wanted
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Malcolm J Harwood (mjhlists-plug@liminalflux.net) had this to say on 09/14/05 at 14:00:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 01:33 pm, George Gallen wrote:
> > http://www.globalcomputer.com/AOL-PC/index.asp
> >
> > It's XP and requires a 1yr AOL contract @23/month
> > but it's 200.00 with a monitor and printer billed in 3 payments.
>
> > looks to be about $50.00 shipping charge to NJ FYI
>
> If they're running linux, the don't need AOL, and the total above comes to
> $476. Even CompUSA will sell you a machine +monitor for less than that. :-/
>
> I'm not sure if $500 qualifies as "limited funds".
Sure it does, when most people think of "computer' as "name brand PC"
(Compaq, Dell, etc). $500 doesn't buy you a whole lot of those, especially if you
need a monitor to go with it.
I bought a $200 PC online from Walmart, and use it as my home mail/webserver.
Had to buy extra memory (it only came with 128M RAM), but that's no big
deal.
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