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mbolding · 07-08-2003, 12:34 PM

I work on computers for a living (among other things) and it is just insane what people will spend just to be able to send email or open some word.doc about 5 years ago I set up a web server for some guy that gets about 50 hits a day. It cost 14,000 USD. dual processors, external SCSI raid 5 1 gig of ram (in 1999) and it ran windows NT with IIS serving up mostly static pages. It cost more than my car. It made me kind of sick. so I set up my desk top to serve the pages and used the machine as my desk top for a while...

07-08-2003, 12:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
mbolding Upright	computers I work on computers for a living (among other things) and it is just insane what people will spend just to be able to send email or open some word.doc about 5 years ago I set up a web server for some guy that gets about 50 hits a day. It cost 14,000 USD. dual processors, external SCSI raid 5 1 gig of ram (in 1999) and it ran windows NT with IIS serving up mostly static pages. It cost more than my car. It made me kind of sick. so I set up my desk top to serve the pages and used the machine as my desk top for a while...