[9280] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Dec 27 20:19:46 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 20:19:15 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: tenney@netcom.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Glenn S. Tenney's message of Mon, 27 Dec 1993 16:52:15 -0800 <199312280052.QAA25554@mail.netcom.com>
>From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
>Barry, if your comment above is correct, then your hardware costs nerly
>$2,000 per user for a maximum number of users (150 users logged in to a
>system costing more than $250,000). If that's correct, than you or your
>users would almost be better off buying a 386 clone with hard drive, modem,
>and monitor from Price Club (for less than $2,000) than that big chunk of
>iron :-)
Um, that's at any one moment Glenn. It's not the same people, we have
several thousand customer accounts.
And you can buy that PC, but it won't be on the net. And that's kinda
the point. Heck, save yourself loads of money and get an
etch-a-sketch, it kinda looks like a laptop computer...
Put another way, you can't have a baby in one month by putting nine
women onto the task...
-Barry Shein
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