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From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Found a ET4000 w/512K for $239
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Date: 27 Oct 90 23:24:08 GMT
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In article <9360@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> paul@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
 (Paul Thiessen) writes:
>In article <312@unf7.UUCP> shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes:
>>
>>If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love
>>to know...please post reply.  A page number from the Computer Shopper would
>>be great!
>
>I just bought Swan's ET4000 board with 1MB VRAM for $230. It works
>beautifully, all the way up to 1024x768x256.

The cheapest board that was reviewed in September's Computer Shopper
was the Swan Super VGA, as Stephen Hite mentions above.  If you only
need 256k instead of the 1MB it should only cost around $149.


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