Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!netnews.srv.cs.cmu.edu!gerry From: gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading Original IBM PC Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 90 13:21:54 GMT References: <4396@crash.cts.com> <2522@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil> <1990Sep18.232351.24184@uncecs.edu> Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Reply-To: gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: mvolo@uncecs.edu's message of 18 Sep 90 23:23:51 GMT In article <1990Sep18.232351.24184@uncecs.edu> mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes: Another no-fault upgrade for original 5- or 8- slot PCs, is the hybrid Bullet motherboard, 8,10,12, or 16 Hz 80286 processor, 8-bit bus run at 4.77 MHz so you can use your old cards. Cost is about $130-190 (depending upon speed) plus 1 meg of DRAM 256K (150, 120, 100 ns, depending upon processor speed). Memory above 640 K is a dedicated ROM hardware disk cache. We did this to a 5-slot PC at work with the 10 Hz board for about $240 complete. This board is made to work with PC-only keyboards and to fit PC & XT chassis's easily. For sec- retarial work, we have not found the lack of 16-bit buss that limiting. We got ours at D.P. computing (see the Shopper, also Leo Computers). I'm sorry folks, but this is one of the absolute stupidest threads I have ever seen on the net. The IBM PC was obsolete years many years ago. Anything with a 286 is obsolete now! Why waste good money to purchase junk? Spend a few bucks and at least get a 386SX, there's no excuse not to. Oh, and if you say $$$, figure out how much your time is worth and multiple that by the time savings from a faster machine. (UH... I never thought of that?!) Furthermore, it is people like the original poster who are doing more harm to the PC market than they can ever realise. If MicroSoft had balls, they would say that stating with MS DOS 5.x, they will drop support for anything not running a 286. Yeah, they'll alienate some folks, but it will allow the rest of the planet (the intelligent half who have a reasonable hardware platform) to finally have a software capability equal to their harware perfomance. -- gerry roston, field robotics center robotics institute, carnegie mellon university pittsburgh, pennsylvania, 15213 (412) 268-6557 gerry@cs.cmu.edu