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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sources of 486 MB wanted
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Date: 31 Jan 91 13:41:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.124428.1@dev3b.mdcbbs.com> faulkner@dev3b.mdcbbs.com writes:
>I am looking for 486 motherboard distributors and manuf.  If you know of any
>both reliable and ones to stay away from it would be appreciated.
>This message may be a duplicate (sorry).

Well, if you are looking for a DISTRIBUTOR, someone who sells directly yo
dealers and such, then you should call up the manufacturer of the motherboard
that you are interested in and ask for dealer sales.  When you get them on
the line, they might want to deal with you directly (if you're purchases
exceed 100 a month usually) or they will direct you to a distributor.

Micronics and Mylex both advertise in Byte Magazine or PC Magazine.  They
are very reputable.  I have a friend who is a seriously good technician
and he says to stay away from DTK or AMI motherboards.  AMI's tend to lose
their CMOS information and DTK's are unreliable and incompatible.

If you are looking for someone to sell you a motherboard as an enduser then
call a local merchant and see what they can do.  I haven't seen a Mylex or
Micronics board mail order yet!

Brian

PS Try Haupaugge.  They advertise in BYTE also.  They have a computer MB
called the i4860 which is an i486 with an intel i860 RISC chip.  It is
seriously fast and can be expanded up to 64MB on the motherboard (using 16
4MB SIMMS).