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From: chaz@chinet.chi.il.us (Charlie Kestner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: AMI MotherBoards
Keywords: ami motherboards
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.010324.5132@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Jul 90 01:03:24 GMT
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  Re: "Touch".
  That is "Touche" by PC Pros in Darien, Illinois (708) 810-1010.

  Re: AMI

  Yes, the motherboard PC Pros is supplying in teh Touche system
will indeed take a 486 chip (No, I've NOT tried it, just repeating
the manufacturer's (AMI's) specs).
  The motherboard takes up 8M RAM, the first 4M via 1M DIPs, the
second 4M via 1M SIMMS.  Anything else, you need to get the propri-
etary 32-bit RAM card.  (Dunno cost, dunno capacity, don't care.)
  The motherboard will take either an 80387 or a Wietek.
  The 32-bit slot can be used as an 8-bit slot (my mouse card is
in my system's 32-bit slot).
  I have Compaq DOS 3.31, and DesqView 386 on the system.  So far,
no big problems.  (QEMM wouldn't get faked out by my 387 emulator,
although that's probably NOTHING to do with the AMI.)
  Should someone want a NICE 33mhz system, I'd recommend not only
the AMI motherboard, but PC Pros, also.
  System came equipped with the following:

  33mhz, 4M 70ns, 32K cache, 1S/1P (AST card), tower case w/220w,
Keytronics 101 kbd, Ultrastor HD/FD controller w/32K cache (Ultra-
stor allows THREE floppies, so a tape is easy to add), 1.2M and
1.44M floppies, Maxtor 4170E 157M 14ms ESDI drive, Orchid 512k
Pro-Designer video (up to 1024x768 NON-interlaced), Sony CDP-1304
14" NON-interlaced analog multi-scan.
  1-year on-site TRW service.
  $ 4,150 delivered.  (About 1 week after ordering, came via FedEx.)