> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
>
> Don't you mean "it turns out to be real... expensive... to get that spec
> out of it ;-)
>
> I wasn't planning on spending the cost of the scanner a second time to
> get it to run at the speced speed, by having to buy a 933MHz processor
> and 512MB of PC133 memory... but I will probably go to a 6XX Mhz
> Pentium III with something like 384MB memory.
PENTIUM III P3 933 FCPGA 256KB L2 CACHE 133MHZ FSB 933EB -- $228 (USD)
Faster Athlon processors are also very reasonable now.
Latest prices at:
http://shopper.cnet.com/shopping/resellers/0-3339607-311-2186786-0.html?tag=st.sh.3339607-
301-0.lst.ml_2186786
(That url undoubtedly wrapped so you may have to put it back on one line)
Navigate to it by clicking on http://shopper.cnet.com/
and you can see all the processor and memory options and prices that way.
Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia
http://www.enochsvision.com; http://www.bahaivision.com -- "Behind all these
manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The
function of art
is to reveal this radiance through the created object." ~Joseph Campbell