[rescue] The best 'rescue' workstation
Phil Stracchino
phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Mon Apr 25 12:11:29 CDT 2005
Atom wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Aaron Finley wrote:
>>> Not here. For example, a Pentium II tower is $300, along with a
>>> for-parts Quadra 950 for $275. I've never seen any unix machines. Only
>>> good find I ever had at surplus was a Tektronix Phaser 850 for $99.
>>
>> *Sweet.* The 850 is laser, not thermal-wax, right?
>
> Phaser 850 is wax...
Oh. Bleh ... I musta been thinking of one of the other 800-series.
860 maybe? 870? My experience of the thermal-wax printers, based on a
Phaser 340, is that they're capable of sucking a donkey through a
.040-guage needle.
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Phil Stracchino
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