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From: bda@cci632.UUCP (Bill Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The PC Magazine study of 80386 systems & Can you roll your own?
Summary: PC mag  386
Keywords: motherboards OS/2 save money keyboards satisfaction tower case
Message-ID: <29763@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 15:22:36 GMT
References: <775@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
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In article <775@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) writes:
> 
> 3.  IF I chose to roll my own system, how much money could I save?  
> (I estimate about $400 for an entry-level system)?

I have taken a look at rolling my own system but I cant save enough
money.  I have trouble doing better than gateway's 386 ( 20 mhz, 1 M, VGA, and
80 Mbyte hard drive ).  People on the net seem to like the machine and the
customer support.  The machine does seem to have a fair number of hard
disk problems on set up.

I did not see the PC mag. review but I remember hearing that this machine
was not covered.  It was reviewed in Byte Oct 88 and they liked it

This is the way I probably will go
 
                                    Bill D