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Aucbvax.4750 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people Wed Oct 28 10:59:04 1981 Re: Hardware and Editor Technology >From cbosgd!mark@Berkeley Wed Oct 28 10:10:58 1981 The SUN sounds wonderful, if you're willing to spend $5-7K each for them (which is reasonable in some industrial environments, but I find it farfetched that a University would spend that kind of money on its students for instruction) and if you don't want to work at home.

Couldn't you put a couple floppies and a modem on one of these things and make it usable over a dialup? If you're already spending $5K, another $1500 seems insignificant for the extra capability.

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