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From: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Slot Expansion Units...
Keywords: Expansion chassis
Message-ID: <1414@wet.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 90 02:25:57 GMT
References: <1990Jul29.071730.434@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <1990Jul29.071730.434@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> avolk@romeo.caltech.edu writes:
>
>	Does anyone have any information on devices that can expand
>the number of slots in your computer? I heard Everx makes such
>a device, but I have never seen it.
>	It seems to me that there would be a preformance trade-off
>if you used one of these. Can anyone give me any reviews/model
>names? Thanks.

Go to your local reputable clone dealer and ask for an expansion chassis.
Basically, it's a box with a power supply and a BUS.  You use one slot in
your machine to insert a board which carries all of the BUS lines into the
other box.  You insert boards in the expansion chassis as though they were
in the main CPU.  Not sure how more slots could affect performance, any more
than having your slots full or empty in the main box would affect it;
depends on what what's in the slots are doing, I suppose.

We used to sell these for something in the neighborhood of $150, I think.  I
presume they're still available.

>					-Andrew


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