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>8600s and 9600s go retail for $800-1000in USA, hopefully private sellers or
>university departments wanting to get rid of surplus "old" Macs to make
>room for G4s will sell for a lot less. I may be pushing the proverbial here
>but if you don't try you'll never find out.

*not speaking for my employer!! *

Sounds like what you probably need is one of the early beige 233MHz G3s.
They're going for about the same as the 8600/9600 boxes & are much more
upgradeable. They also use the newer-style DRAM and have fast ATA drives
as standard instead of clunky SCSI-2. Pick up a 233MHz - it'll be way
faster than your 6116 (or even an 8600/250). Later on, you could drop
in a new 450MHz processor from PowerForce ....

Just MHO .....

Pete C

OBVanagon - my '88 Wolfie is finally clearing UK customs today. I'm
travelling over to Southampton on Tuesday to pick it up ... 8-)

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