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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with CloneBuilding
Summary: You asked for thoughts
Message-ID: <293@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 89 14:15:58 GMT
References: <19568@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <19568@gryphon.COM>, jburnes@pnet02.gryphon.com (Jim Burnes) writes:
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|             Half Height Tower             Any reason why not?
  Unless you have a good reason for a small case, a large case *tends*
to cool better, and won't run out of room as fast. I'm looking for a
tower with 3 HH and 2 FH bays now, you *will* run out of room. Get a big
power supply, 250-275w for future use and reliability.
|             72 Meg 18ms Miniscribe 3085?  Any other MFM half heigts
  Unless you need the space again, why not a cheap half height. The
Seagate 4144 (or 4096 if you feel lucky) run with the ARRL controller.
|             4.6 Meg Ram                   cheap source of 1m simms?
|             ACER 386/20 MotherBd AT Jr.   Anyone familiar with this?
  Look for another motherboard which allows use of DIP instead. There
are a few which take up to 4MB DIP *and* 4 MB SIMM.
|             Northgate Keyboard
  The best!
|             Perstor ARRL Controller       Doubles Storage
  While I have used one of these, a few words of caution. First, the
cheap one (hard disk only) won't run UNIX, you need the high bucks
version (about $300-375 street price). Second, the one I had didn't have
hardware track buffering, which makes it slow under UNIX. I went to the
WD1006VSR2 RLL controller (after using Adaptek) and it's much faster.
For the price you could go RLL and buy a bigger disk.
|             Zenith Flat Screen VGA        Maybe Samsung 800X600
  Spend the bucks for the Zenith or NEC 4D.
|             Undecided VGA Card
  There are some good cheap ones. I use the Hedaka and with extra memory
it goes 1024x768 and 640x480x256. It also runs all the standard modes
I've tried, including some of the ones you get on a IBM VGA by diddling
the registers.
|             Undecided I/O Card
|             Fujitsu 3.5&5.25Floppies      Heard Theyre very quiet
|             MSDOS                         Can you still get 3.3?
  You can and should, but read on...
|             XENIX 386 Devel System        For Cross Devel Work
|             QNX                           Any opinions?
  For cross development you could get Xenix, vpix, and the development
set. Or you could wait until SCO starts shipping the development set for
SCO UNIX and get OS/2 support, too. I will guess the street price for
all of that will be about $1200-1400, but haven't seen the dealer prices
on it yet. You can use someone else's UNIX, like INteractive, but they
don't offer the cross compilation, and the last version of their
compiler I tried was less ANSI compliant than SCO (neither is perfect,
just diferent bugs).
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