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From: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 3-6 Computers to good to be true?  Other recommendations?
Message-ID: <1331@ke4zv.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 11:15:07 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.234057.22664@intek01.uucp>
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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In article <1990Sep13.234057.22664@intek01.uucp> mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>These guys advertise in PC Week, with what looks like an amazing deal:
>
>	33 MHZ Micronics, 64K Cache
>	4 MB RAM
>	SVGA combo (1024x768)
>	330 MB CDC SCSI drive
>	etc.
>
>for $3699.
>
>Is this too good to be true, or does the price break just come from being
>able to avoid paying for Gateway 2000 et.al.'s  multipage colorful ads?
>
>Any other hardware recommendations for a similar configuration (150-200MB
>SCSI, ESDI, or IDE disk would actually be enough) would be most appreciated.

This is not too good to be true. The system I'm using has the 33Mhz Micronics
caching motherboard, 8 MB RAM, SVGA, a 330 MB Micropolis SCSI drive, a
ST296 80 MB SCSI drive, Archive tape drive, Adaptec 1542A controller,
power supply, case and keyboard for a total price of $2900. Of course no
two components came from the same vendor and I did some very aggressive
shopping. I also had some hair tearing problems getting it all to run.
It took about 3 months to gather the whole system into a working machine.
What you are paying Gateway 2000 et. al. for is to take the integration
headaches and the component shopping headaches off your shoulders. It's
often worth it.

Gary