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From: poffen@lookitthat (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Attractive price; Unit any good?
Keywords: Maybe the price too good to be true?
Message-ID: <1989Oct31.235626.10365@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 31 Oct 89 23:56:26 GMT
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Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <2495@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> feg@moss.ATT.COM writes:
>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.
>

Boy this sounds too good to be true (which means it probably is) but if it is
legit, I would sure be interested in some experience with it.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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