On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Nick Rout wrote:
dragonpc will sell an upgrade kit (new) for $250+gst with mem,case,
mboard,cpu but no drives, and no OS.
not much use without a hard drive, so you need to factor that in.
Generally the broker's second hand machines home with a 40G disk, at
least enough for what has been sought.
yes.
However, this is a linux user group, and old/small drives can be sourced
from our parts kits.
you do need to add an optical drive. I had a look in my "parts bin"
(garage) and found two optical drives after a quick glance.
Futher,
40Gb - how small is that?
320Gb is $70 from any of those cut price suppliers mentioned in this thread..
((On a side note, remember how 20Mb was huge ??)
(((8kb took 5 mins to save with a ZX81 to tape)))
40gb does not hold many top gear episodes.
Derek.
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