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From: wongl@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Glenn N Woodland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Wanted: Advice on Buying a 386 SX
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Date: 12 Nov 90 11:07:15 GMT
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As we are naive of computing, forgive us if the questions here are too simple.

One of my friend wants to buy a PC 386 SX. A dealer offered him
the following configuration:

		386SX 16 MHz (20 Landmark, CHIPS & TECH chip set)
		Taiwanese motherboard
		Trident (?) VGA 512KB 16bit Card
		Taiwanese SVGA monitor
		40MB Hard disk
		1 5-1/4" FD and 1 3-1/2" FD
		S/P/G ports and 101 Key Keyboard

The price is about US$2000 (or A$2400). Is this a fair deal? As the price
seems cheaper, should my friend pay some cautions? The main usage of the
computer is to run some engineering software which need more than
1MB memory and 32bit calculation. As the results will be displayed on
screen using color graphics, the experiece with the Trident (?) card
is also wanted.

Another question is that what the respeed for a modem is necessary to connect
the PC to the company's mainframe from outside for remote log in purpose and
for tranferring some field data.  The dealer has no idea about this neither.

Please email me your answer. Thanks in advance.

-Glenn
wongl@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU