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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel Inboard/386
Keywords: Inboard, 386, Intel
Message-ID: <2556@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 03:06:01 GMT
References: <77193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <6338@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <6338@mace.cc.purdue.edu> nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks) writes:
| 
| 	I have been asked to look into upgrading a friend's
| True Blue IBM PC (the origional w/8088).  

  Given pricing today, I would drop in a $400 SX board with an XT
footprint and replace the power supply. Remember the PC has 65w, XT
110w. Both pretty low power by current standards.

  Inboard was appropriate then, unless you get one really cheap,
probably not now. It leaves you stuck with all 8 bit boards. Remember AT
boards are taller in most cases than XT, you have to shop or chop.
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