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From: jwi@cbnewsj.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Northgate ?
Keywords: Northgate,80386,80486
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.162431.25253@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:24:31 GMT
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You will almost certainly want:

	1 3.5" floppy (available in slimline)
	1 5.25" floppy (available in slimline)
	2 HD (so you won't have to throw away the
		original when you need more space. -- no
		space available in slimline.)
	1 tape drive for your new, bigger disk -- no space
		available in a slimline
	

And, you may also want
	1 cd -- no space available in slimline

Whether or not you're being shortsighted depends on what you wind up doing
in the next 24 months. Now, I admit that I have one, a DELL 220 (20MHz
286) that I bought in 1988. I'm giving it to my wife for an
order entry machine for her business as it's far too small for the kind
of publishing that I do now. If you don't have someone to give a slimline to
when you outgrow it, you're probably being shortsighted. If you have kids
in grade school, you can probably give it to them.

Jim Winer -- jwi@mtfme.att.com -- Opinions not represent employer.
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