BW: IChargeit, Inc., Begins Manufacturing and Marketing $399 Linux PC Computer Systems | Linux Today

BW: IChargeit, Inc., Begins Manufacturing and Marketing $399 Linux PC Computer Systems

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 11, 2000

“iChargeit…d.b.a. Shoppingplanet.com, a diversified Internet
retailer, today announced it began manufacturing a line of Linux
based PC Computer Systems for $399, through their wholly-owned
subsidiary Bay Micro Computers, Inc.”

The Company is marketing these systems on their web
site…as well as through their Bay Micro reseller
network.

“The Linux based computers systems comes with a Linux based
operating system, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) Star Office Suite
5.1 software, which contains a word processor, spread sheet,
presentation, drawing and browser programs, Corel (NASDAQ:CORL)
WordPerfect Suite 8, an organizer, text editor, multiple games, an
MP3 player, a media player, a CD player, a MIDI karaoke player, and
utilities including an address book, calculator and tape back-up.
The computer system is powered by an AMD (NYSE:AMD) K6-2 400 MHz
CPU chip, and contains 32 MB PC-100 S-D Ram and a 4.3 GB IDE
ulta-66 hard drive. The monitor will be sold separately.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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