[SunRescue] What Gem did I find?

[Dan Lane]

Kurt Mosiejczuk sent the following on Mon, 26 Mar 2001...

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> > James,
> >
> > Just curious, but why couldn't they just build an IPC or IPX into the SPARCPrinter? Where I used to work they would simply take an IPC/IPX, fill it with RAM (IIRC) and shove the printer interface card in the box and go from there.
> >
> > Actually, the printer only used a fraction of the "power" of these workstations, so a lesser system could have been included - this would have added about $1K???
>
> Consider that, according the the sun hardware reference, the IPC and IPX
> introduced at $7995 and $9995 respectively.  So, it would've added a bit
> more than $1k =)

Sure would be fun to go back and show them how I am using IPCs to raise my
monitors up to head-height :)

Dan - wooo tube strike!