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From: crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu
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Subject: Re: What's the best way to speed up an XT?
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Date: 3 Nov 89 04:34:37 GMT
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In article <1096@borabora.omni.com>, bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes...
>I've got an old XT clone which works fine, but is intolerably
>slow (at 8 MHz).
> 
>I'd like to speed the thing up, but don't want to spend a lot
>of money on a system which was purchased specifically because
>of its low price.

I would recommend a replacement 286 motherboard that is specifically designed
to use your old XT components. I have performed several upgrades and am very
pleased with the speed increase for a very modest cost. Recently I upgraded
my own machine with a Bullet 286 motherboard. It a 8 MHz machine that uses
120 ns RAMs. Since you have an 8 MHz XT I would recomment their slightly
slower 7.2 MHz machine. It also includes RAM caching software built into
ROM that if enabled and you have 1 MEG of RAM will use the upper 384K to
cashe your hard disk and improve its performance. The cost of the Bullet 286E
board was published at $125 in the most recent Computer Shopper and can be 
purchased from:

		Marchland International
		1240 N. Van Buren Unit 108
		Anaheim, CA 92807
		714-630-3382

	(just a happy customer with no affiliation)