Takes me back. I bought a used Dell workstation for a few hundred bucks. Was pretty bare, basically case, power supply and motherboard. At the time, it was the

Takes me back. I bought a used Dell workstation for a few hundred bucks. Was pretty bare, basically case, power supply and motherboard. At the time, it was the only motherboard I was aware of that supported dual socket CPUs and AGP graphics. Even though I bought it used, Dell support was willing to help me out debugging why it wouldn't boot (something to due with a mismatch between the CPU power control units - I think that's what they were called- with a dual P4 Xeon setup). For the workstation, it was pretty damned affordable for what I got. The kick in the jaw was that it took RDRAM. To put in 1.5 GB of RAM doubled the cost of the build, easily. Few years later when I was an FTE, and no longer in school, dropped a couple of grand USD to upgrade the RAM to 3 GB. That was circa 2005. Great workstation, but boy was that RDRAM expensive...