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Re: Thanks for donations
- From: Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:17:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: Thanks for donations
- References: <3E53901C.6090209@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> To anyone who has made a donation: thanks!
>
> I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer
> this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB
> 5400 RPM drive. I have now setup a cross compiling environment again
> since I finally have the room to do so.
>
> An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB
> with "20 GB free" for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate,
> bringing the total price down to $100. Their actual 120 GB drive was
> $150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache. I
> figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price
> increase.
>
> Anywho, thanks again for the donations.
Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or
to Alexander for their work ?
Alan.