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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sources of 486 MB wanted
Message-ID: <3082@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 91 22:49:40 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.124428.1@dev3b.mdcbbs.com> <26601@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <26601@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:

| 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.

  Any board with a dead battery will lose it's CMOS info. Other than
that I've had about a dozen I've installed or otherwise know, and none
has has a problem, including this one which has been running for 50
months and may be one of the oldest 386's used as a news and mail server.

| 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!

  You don't read _PC Week_. Mylex: Stellar, 415-601-1864, Micronics:
Lucky Computer, 800-348-5825 (and other locations). I spotted these on
the first page I opened, so I bet there are more.
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