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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ET400 Card
Keywords: X386 STB PowerGraph
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.161035.17066@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 91 16:10:35 GMT
References: <22110@hydra.gatech.EDU> <3221@sixhub.UUCP> <3305@kksys.mn.org>
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In article <3305@kksys.mn.org> gk@kksys.mn.org (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
>In article <3221@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>|In article <22110@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastdd@prism.gatech.EDU (David Preston Dykes) writes:
>|| 	I have an STB PowerGraph with 1Mb that I will sell for $200.  
>||This card employs the ET4000 chipset for which Thomas Roell wrote his
>||now famous server, in addition it comes with drivers for mswindows 3.0 (sic),
>||autocad/shade and most of the other biggies. If you have any further questions
>||please just ask.
>|
>|  And if you miss this bargain you can get a SWAN board, with ET4000,
>|1MB, and a waranty for $199. It comes with drivers, but I only run UNIX
>
>... and in case anyone cares, I have a few of the STB boards populated
>with 512K, socketed for the full 1 MB, that I overbought on... I am
>asking $149, and will include chips to update them to 1 MB for an
>additional $30, for a net of $179 on a full 1 MB board.

To add some fun into this "bargain" thread,  last week a friend of mine bought
a ET4000 based card with *ONE MEG* made by Boca Research from a mail order 
place in Arizona, called Warehouse 54, for $158 (Fed Exp 2nd day shipping 
included).

He is quite happy with it using it for MSWIN3.x apps.  I don't know whether 
it's good for Thomas Roell's server however, since I don't have it's spec.   

BTW, Warehouse 54 -> 1-800-955-0054 a number you can find in Computer Shoppers.

Standard Disclaimer:  I have no affiliation whatsoever with either Boca      
                      Research or Warehouse 54.  The statements above are
                      strictly for info only.

Check it out however with the Tech Support of Boca Research however. 


Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University 
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu