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