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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT Upgrade/Replace
Summary: trade up
Message-ID: <1497@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 15:08:06 GMT
References: <4764@sun.acs.udel.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  If I read your article right, you have a genuine IBM AT (like 339). By
looking at prices from the Boston Computer Exchange I see that people
are willing to pay a lot for a real IBM, like $1500 or so. You have a
loaded machine and might be able to get a bit more for it.

  With that high a tradein value I would suggest that you sell it and
buy a 386 clone. I you can settle for good but not blinding performance
you can get a machine with 80MB disk and 4MB memory for about $3k. That
seems like a better path than reducing the resale value of the machine
you have.

  If I misread what you meant by "original AT" this doesn't apply, the
resale value of a used clone is not nearly as high in most localities.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon