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From: ken@capone.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 486/25 Power Platform for PS/2 70-A21
Keywords: Intel 80486, PS/2 70, AIX, cost
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Date: 12 Jul 89 18:16:59 GMT
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In article <8032@mtune.ATT.COM> rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran) writes:
>
>As I understand it, this is a 486 replacement board for an existing PS/2-70.
>Between buying the initial PS/2 and this board, you're up to around $10-11K,
>right?  

Correct on all counts...

>        As it is safe to assume that Intel isn't restricting chip supply
>to IBM, what does this buy you over waiting for some probably-very-small
>period until Compaq/Zenith/ATT/.........  get their machines out, unless
>you already own the PS/2?  A perplexed mind wants to know....
>
>						Bob Halloran

Well...lets see if I can name a few without being labeled an IBM
flag-waver...

I can get both the PS/2-70 A21 and the 486/25 at substatial discount
as a student.  Price becomes less of an issue...

Speaking of price...have you recently priced a 25Mhz 386 with 2MB RAM
and a 120MB hard disk from Compaq?  Certainly not much cheaper than the
PS/2 equivalent...I don't expect their 486 boxes to buck this trend.
Indeed, most things that I have read peg mainstream 486 boxes in the
$15K-$20K ballpark, at least for some time (feel free to correct me if
wrong)...

The 486/25 availible real soon now.  Not nessesarily so with the
Compaq/Zenith/ATT hoard...

Perhaps I want or need MCA (and there are some reasons why I might),
and ATT/Compaq/Zenith don't have it...

Same as above for AIX...

Now, don't get me wrong...I'm no IBM fan, and I'm certainly no Intel
fan, but the PS/2-70 is a slick product, and the 486 upgrade is a very
slick product (I can hear the salesman now: "buy the 70-A21 now, and
you'll be able to upgrade it to a 486 when you need it, by just poping
in this little board!  No slots taken!"  Great stuff for marketing).
I have to give credit where it is due...*sigh*

	...ken seefried iii
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