Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!thyme!kaleb From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 386SX Motherboards Message-ID: <1991Jan18.180251.490@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 18 Jan 91 18:02:51 GMT References: <1991Jan11.071030.15193@d.cs.okstate.edu> Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 25 In article dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes: >ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >> I too was looking for a 386SX motherboard a couple of months ago, but was >> told repeatedly by different mail-order houses that due to short supply >> of the 386SX mb, they are only selling SX as a system. One guy said >> that the big japanese firms are snatching up the SX mb's. Does anyone >> know if the SX mb is still in short supply and is the japanese thing >> true? >> >I have heard that (in Canada at least, which is pretty similiar to the US) >the shortage isn't as bad as it was a few months ago. About the Japanese >buying up all the boards, from what I heard the problem is in Europe, where >apparently they are paying much higher prices for the boards as PCs pick up >in popularity. I see plenty of SX motherboards at the swap meets on a regular basis. No shortage here in L.A. What's perhaps interesting is that while DX and 486 prices have been falling, SX boards have been about the same price for over a year now. -- Kaleb Keithley Jet Propulsion Labs kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Offensive quote coming soon to a .signature file near you.