> In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.970506115253.6470A-100000@tera.engr.mun.ca> > Joshua Swamidas <joshua@ENGR.MUN.CA> writes: > > JS> We have a limited budget to buy a good machine and the > JS> software ($15-18,000 Cdn). There are so many options out there so Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > If you are lucky, you may > get an O2, all your software, a SpaceBall, CrystalEyes glasses and > still have change enough for pizza. > Jerry Isdale wrote: >An O2 plus spaceBall plus CrystalEyes plus software plus some pizza >(no beer or soda) for less than $18,000Cdn ??? Will that O2 include >memory, disks, monitors, keyboards, mice? Maybe a used and abused O2 I couldn’t resist responding to this, but Jerry Isdale is one of my “most quoted” VR pioneers in all of my VR workshops for teachers...So please forgive me Jerry if I offend you in any thing that I say...: ) I also owe a tremedous debt to SGI for all of the help and encouragement that they have given to me. A little background (just brief)...Two years ago I was given a fellowship to study, develop, and implement a VR program for the sciences and math....A little too early to get the better prices on machines that are available now for a 1/3 of what I got them for two years ago. ...Any way I love my Pentium machines and the capabilities and software associated with them...but I also love my SGI O2 machine.... and I will give the reasons listed below... [389 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=2573992&hilit=ART+VRML> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&2537671 Score: 78 Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #90