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From: jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Trump 500 w/ Ram expansion
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Date: 21 Jan 90 10:48:08 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jhc00614    Jan 20 04:28:00 1990


     The thing is, I knew the costs involved before I purchased the Trumpcard.
Impact, no matter what configuration, was out of bounds.  The C-ltd was too
slow and too old.  The A590 is nice, if you are willing to pay around $650 for
a 20 meg 80ms scsi.  So $650, plus, $250? for the dated 256Kx4 ram, no fan,
and no expansion if you get an A2000, and all the compatibility troubles?
     Well, cost alone was $900 for a 20 meg 80 ms system w/2meg?  The Trump
cost me $230 for the case and controller, $339 for a 48meg 28ms ST-157n-1,
$160 for 2 meg of simms! (80ns), and $165 Meta 4 ram card EXPANDABLE to 4 meg,
$80 for power supply and case w/ room for 2 1/2 height hard drives when I
expand my system, and you get a very expandable, upgradeable, compatible 
system for about 100 bucks more.  Definitely worth it in my opinion,
especially since for that $100 bucks more, I get 28 meg more space, on a
faster hard drive, which I can take apart and put in my A2000 (someday
soon hopefully), with no compatibilty problems.
                               To each his own,
                               Look before you leap,  
                              But he who hesitates is lost,
                              And other meaningles statements,
                              Jason Chung