J. Clarke wrote:


He's looking for a status symbol. A quad core machine with 8 gig
ram, a terabyte of disk, and a reasonably fancy video board can be
had from Best Buy for about 800 bucks.

I know that we're all aware of this, but sometimes it still amazes me at how
the prices of computer hardware have plumetted so much. I remember when I
was with EMC back in the mid-90s and a terabyte of storage was a million
dollar investment. Granted - that was more than just a terabyte of disk,
but still...

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-Mike-