Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!att!cbnewsl!moss!feg From: feg@moss.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Attractive price; Unit any good? Keywords: Maybe the price too good to be true? Message-ID: <2495@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Date: 30 Oct 89 20:32:00 GMT Sender: nntp@cbnewsl.ATT.COM Reply-To: feg@moss.ATT.COM Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 This is especially directed to WestCoasters. On page 135 of PCWeek Oct. 23rd issue is an ad by a company called COMTRADE 818-964-6688 whose address is 1016-B Lawson, City of Industry, CA Their price is $1650 for a 386/25 Mhz system. It includes: AMI bios with Setup program 1 MB 80ns RAM 8 slots; 80287 & 80387 sockets 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB floppy drive Seagate 84 MB 28ms SCSI HD Seagate SCSI HD/FD controller AT case with 200 w. power supply 101 keyboard 2 serial/1 parallel IO Among the options is a VGA Monitor & card $480 I called to find out what motherboard they use: Answer: Turntoint, which I never heard of. Anyone seen this unit or know anything about it? Any experience with it? Please email or put it on the net if you think of general interest. Forrest Gehrke clyde!feg