Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Re: Upgrading Original IBM PC Message-ID: <35010022@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 28 Sep 90 17:32:58 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 31 I thought the original question is about ungrading an XT with some 286 add on cards. In that case, it indeed make more sense to just rip the motherboard out (hang it on the wall as a souvenir ??) and replace it with a 386sx or better motherboard. You can buy this for around $300 which is only a few tens of dollars more than your 286 add on card. And you get a very real 386 machine. So, why waste money on patchy add ons ? > How would you feel if every model year, car makers quit providing parts > for last year's model? Oh, but you'll get better gas mileage with a new > model, so why waste money fixing up last year's junk? If GM had balls, > they could do this. So what if they alienate a few million drivers? > This analogy doesn't quite hold for PC. If GM can produce new model and let old model user upgrade (by swapping the engine ??) for say a couple of hundred dollars, then the analogy would hold. And people will indeed do the upgrade ! Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include