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[08] HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO RUN SDF?
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So you're curious? Well, hopefully you'll be more willing to
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donate if you know what it cost to run SDF. I'm looking for
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ways to make this information a bit more public so that it will
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hopefully increase donations.
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In the old days, when we had 9 telephone lines, the cost was
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relatively high. GTE phone lines could be as cheap as $24 a
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month, but SWBell lines could be $9.99 a month. How? Because
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I stripped everything off even DTMF (touch tone) dialing! But
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I still remember the nightmare of $380 a month phone bills.
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ISDN was about $48 a month and would be later used to replace
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two analogue lines (an analogue phone line could run over a single
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B channel). No real savings with GTE, but nonetheless was tried.
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So here are the rough numbers.
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Old Old Days .. 1987-1989
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Basically $0, as Ted's mother covered the cost of the dedicated
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line (214-358-xxxx) and Ted got our first computer on his birthday
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from ComputerCraft in Dallas in June of 1985 for $1065.95. A 5mb
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hard drive was purchased in 1989 prior to going with UNIX, but
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again other than the IBM XT running briefly running citadel BBS
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Ted's mom covered the cost for the 386 20.
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(See http://sdf.org/?tour/1985/index)
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Old Days .. 1990-1993 (when we went multiline):
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Rent: $4200 a year
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Phones: $1344 a year (four/five lines GTE)
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Electricity: $180 a year
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Network: $0 a year (thank you Eric, Doug & Roy)
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Total: $6084
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1994-1996
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Rent: $5580 a year
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Phones: $1320 a year (nine/ten lines SWB)
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ISDN: $576 a year
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Electricity: $200 a year
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Network: $0 a year (thank you Eric & Aaron)
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Total: $7876
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1997-2000
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Rent: $0 a year (thank you MALR)
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ISDN: $600 a year (two phone lines GTE)
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DSL: $3588 a year (768k/256k)
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Electricity: $230 a year
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Total: $4878
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2001-2003
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Rent: $14436 a year (includes circuit provision)
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DSL: $3480 a year (1.5mbit/1.5mbit)
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Electricity $360 a year
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Total: $18276
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2003 - 2009
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Rent: $15300 a year (includes multi-DS3 circuit provision)
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DSL: $1329 a year (DSL memberships)
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Dialup: $2060 a year (Dialup memberships + POP lease)
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Misc: $248 a year
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Total: $18937
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2010 - Present
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Rent (SEA): $11832 a year (full cabinet and storage + network)
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Rent (DFW): $1800 a year (4U + network allocation)
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Rent (EU): $0 a year (1U donated value is 840 EU/year)
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DSL: $1329 a year (DSL Memberships)
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Dialup: $2060 a year (Dialup memberships + POP lease)
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Total: $17021
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Interested in helping out now? Try typing 'pledge'. Thank you!!
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