On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 12:45 AM, the pickle wrote:
> At 19:38 -0400 on 11/04/02, Scott Holder wrote:
>
>> I also think that $800 is a little steep since all it is is a 5400
>> motherboard with a G3 card. I'm probably going to be Takky-fying my CC
>
> $300 for the G3 card
> $100 for the donor 5400 or $50 for the mobo
> $60/hour labour x about 10 hours
>
> $800 isn't enough.
>
> Which is why virtually nobody has *bothered* selling them. Except the
> one
> guy who has to ruin it for everyone.
Modifying CCs is a bit like collecting fossils and minerals (something I
do as a Geologist). You can go into a shop and buy a perfect specimen
for �200 or you can go find it yourself. The one you find yourself will
ALWAYS mean som uch more to you becasue of the work you poured into it.
As another example I had 2 copies of my map for my dissertation printed
so I could keep one copy as I spent an inumerate number of hours on it.
If I bought a Power CC for $799 I would not feel any attachemtn to it.
If I build my own I would feel like part of me was in the machine and
treasure it for all time, like my SE/30 I built from about 3 different
machines but ended up with a 50MHz 030 and 20MB of RAM and a 1.4MB
external floppy :).
It's all relative, as Albert Einstein might have said :).
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