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From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 486's
Message-ID: <955@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 16:59:17 GMT
References: <655@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
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Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <655@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> frison@cs.arizona.edu (Glen Alexander Frison) writes:
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>Price Club (out here in the West) has a 486 made by PC-Positive for a
>little under $3K.  It comes with 1.2meg and 1.4meg drives, a decently large
>hard drive, a case, a keyboard, and etc.  Does anyone know anything about
>this system and/or this company?  Can you really get such a system for
>under $3K?

 This system was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times Computer Column and got
 good praise from the reviewer.  I have seen the system, and called up the
 company for more info.  The main drawbacks I have seen are: a limited number
 of expansion slots (for me, anyway).  The standard configuration only leaves
 two slots open.  Also, the "options" are way overprices, such as a $500
 120Mb tape drive and $100+/Mb RAM costs, etc.  The 106Mb drive is about
 100Mb too small for my requirements.  But it is complete, and has windows
 already installed.

 I too am still looking to buy a 486... at least on the plus side, the price
 keeps getting lower the longer I wait...