I just did a bit of totting up and I can get this:
Dual 1 GHz Athlons running on an Asus 266 MHz mobo with 2 USB ports, one paralell, two serial, two PS/2
10 GB 15,000 rpm SCSI hard drive
80 GB 7,200 rpm IDE/DMA Seagate Barracuda hard drive
512 MB DDR RAM
GeForce 2 GTS
Soundblaster 128 PCI
SCSI CDRW
IDE DVD-ROM
10/100 base-T Intel ethernet card
SCSI-Wide adapter (supports up to 15 devices, ha!)
Aluminium tower case with two case fans
450 W PSU
The price doesn't include a monitor, keyboard, modem, mouse, cables or speakers - I either already have them already or can pick them up cheaply second hand - all for £1250, which is what this computer cost me. I don't need things like floppies; I've not used my floppy since I bought this computer. In the age of zip drives and bootable CD's they're virtually obsolete. Besides, a floppy drive will cost me, what, £10 these days? Pfah.
Oh yeah - software cost = ZERO. Bless Linux.
Not a bad spec really. Do I hear the words "sh*t off a stick"?
This would also leave with with an extra perfectly functional computer too (which, by way f comparison, would have cost me about £900 if I'd built it myself, compared to the £1200 I paid for it).
Now all I need it a spare £1400....
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