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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DAK 386SX for $1800
Message-ID: <4199@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 90 20:23:36 GMT
References: <26770001@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <26770001@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>, scott@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Scott Linn) writes:
> The newest DAK catalog shows a 16 Mhz 386SX computer, 1 meg, 40 meg
> hard disk, one each 5.25 and 3.5 disk drives,
> serial and parallel ports, mouse, VGA display, lots of software, etc.
> for $1800.  The computer maker is BSR (probably just OEM'ed).  Anyway,
> does anyone know anything about this computer or BSR computers?  It
> seems like a really good deal.  Also, the ad doesn't mention if the
> computer comes with a VGA driver card; does anyone know if it does?
> 
> Scott Linn

The same DAK catalog also offers a CD-ROM drive for $499, plus a number
of CD-ROMs that are of interest to me.  Unfortunately, you can only get
the CD-ROM drive if you buy the BSR 386SX system also.  Well, I don't
want another computer -- just a reasonably priced CD-ROM drive!  I
presume (or at least hope) that there is a technical reason why DAK
only sells the CD-ROM drive bundled -- like a shared controller with
the hard disk.

Perhaps someone wants to buy the BSR, and sell me the CD-ROM?
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
"Our Constitution is color-blind.  The arbitrary separation of citizens,
on the basis of race... is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with
civil freedom." -- Justice John Marshall Harlan (1896)