MicroCenter Systems

[L. Adrian Griffis]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Dustin Decker wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 mbsmith at dstsystems.com wrote:
> > I just bought a K6-2 550 for $26 and a 128MB DIMM for $28.  Do a search at 
> > pricewatch.com for 10.0GB and you'll see a Quantum drive for $42.  These 
> > have/had free shipping.  So add that to your $99 machine and, yes, really 
> > - $200.  As to whether the BIOS would take a K6-2 550, that's an unknown, 
> > but the point is, decent parts are cheap!
> 
> I think the argument raised here was whether or not you could get a 
> machine for that price _WITH_ a monitor.  Tack that onto your numbers 
> above and you're gonna be off.  (And I think free shipping on a monitor 
> will be HIGHLY unlikely.)  <grin>
> Dustin

Correct.  All you people out there who are operating w/o firewalls
should be thinking about systems like these.  All we don't know for
sure is if they will take additional network cards.

Adrian