I still keep a bill of SGI Indigo memory extension from 64 Mb to 128Mb - $ 12,000 from Kingston in 1994
Friends, do not be niggards, life is much nicer today.
Dr Felix Frolow
Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology
Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor
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On Jun 9, 2011, at 19:52 , William Scott wrote:
> Yeah, I know what you mean. That Zalman 3D LCD monitor put me back almost $300, and the mac mini I hooked it to, nearly another $600. My SGIs only cost $12K each in 1998.
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> On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Mayer, Mark (NIH/NICHD) [E] wrote:
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>> The sad thing is, although Macs are great crystallography platforms, stereo is hard at best, ridiculously expensive compared to Linux systems, and still requires the use of CRTs which have not been manufactured for years ...
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