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Subject: Re: 286 clone
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Date: 15 Nov 89 13:24:25 GMT
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In article <2589@sioux.oakhill.UUCP> dale@sioux.UUCP (Dale Stevens) writes:
>In article <7321@ingr.com> fordke@ingr.UUCP (Keith Ford x8614) writes:
>>I have recently purchased 286-12MHz and 286-16MHz kits from Jameco
>>Electronics.  They are in a kit form, no soldering iron required.
>>They have worked flawlessly! :)  They use AMI (or was it Award?)
>>BIOS and the 16MHz has the NEAT chipset.
>
>How much $ for one of these?

Jameco is not cheap.

I put together a few 12 MHz 286's for myself and some friends
around a motherboard from Sys-Technology.  For < $1250 I get
a solid, no frills workhorse (albeit a little sluggish by
today's 386 standards).

12 MHz 0 wait state 1 Mb ram
40 Mb (28 ms) HD
1:1 interleave controller
1.2 Mb FD
mono graphics monitor/adapter
1 game port, 1 parallel, 2 serial ports
case, 220 W supply, 101 Key keyboard.

An identical system all from Jameco approaches $1600.

Shop around and do it yourself.  It's not as hard as you might think.

- Stanton Loh
  u2zj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu