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From: RFM@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Summary on SOTA 386SX processor upgrade
Message-ID: <91125.230946RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 03:09:46 GMT
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I've been running a SOTA 386sx accelerator card in a Zenith Z159 --
an xt-level box -- for 18 months now. Had to send it to factory in 1st
month for jumpering to make it Zenith compatable, bt it's been running
with no problems ever since. It isn't an ideal upgrade, especially
not in relation to payoff from replacing motherboard, but back 'then,
Hauppage boards were around $1000.

Just last month I put an Intel 387sx coprocessor aboard the sota card,
and this sucker really moves thru statistical analyses routines now.
It used to choke up on least squares calculations (n-way anovas, step-
wise regressions, etc.) but now there's hardly a pause in stats roll-outs
on my screen.

I was warned off getting their memory daughtercard back when I bought
my sota board, and I didn't get one. I'm running a couple of Zentih
emm boards in my box for xtra memory.

Like I said, it aint ideal, but it's adequate. My Norton speed rating
went from 2.9 to 15.6. Not bad for $500.  I've gotten my money's worth.d
When/if this thing dies, then I'll try replacing my mothreboard.
-- Anybody know of a motherboard replacement that will fit in a Z159 box?

BobM, PSU-Harrisburg