> If you're willing to answer it would also be interesting to know what drove > you to spend as much as you did on that particular computer?
The most I spent personally was a bit over $10,000 for my personal POWER6 server. I was actually ready to buy a brand new POWER7 (which would probably have crossed the $15K mark all loaded), but no IBM VAR would take my money because I don't do service contracts, so I bought used from a company in Minnesota. Later on I got the HMC for it also, so I guess it's been around $11,000+ all in. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- "My inner geek can beat up your inner geek." -------------------------------