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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Found a ET4000 w/512K for $239
Message-ID: <866@redford.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 90 14:33:15 GMT
References: <312@unf7.UUCP> <4021@awdprime.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <4021@awdprime.UUCP> woan@iti.org (Ronald S. Woan Jr.) writes:
>shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes:
>>I, among many others, am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tom Roell's new
>>x11r4 VGA server which will take full advantage of the ET3000 and ET4000.
>>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!
>
>No page number, but both PC Brand and Swan offers boards based on said
>chip sets for less... The STB Powerview is also ET4000 based and has
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							   Powergraph
>been seen for less than the CompuAdd version...
>	
I bought a STB Powergraph VGA w/1MB for $189.  It came with all the
Windows drivers you could ever want.  Vpic GIF viewer and a 1024x768x256
GIF came with so I could see my card working its butt off.  The ROM it
came with was old (v1.3), which was causing a problem with my harddrive.
I called STB, they told me I had old bios, and practically in the same
breath asked me my mailing address and said it would be in the mail later
on that same day.  I received it a few days later.  Talk about great
service.  The ROM upgrade cost me $0.00.  I didn't even have to pay for
shipping.  This is a good card to get.

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