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From: german@uiucuxc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 18 MHz Xtal for AT
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 10:10:00 EST
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1-3. I would not replace my crystal until my warranty expires as you 
void your warranty with this "upgrade".  I think you will see IBM offer
a faster crystal as an IBM upgrade within the next year.

You want more hard disk storage?  Pick up any recent copy of PC Week or
PC magazine.  You will be able to find internal drives of at least 100Mb.
You will want to make sure you can use all that space through software 
support as you will probably need multiple logical volumes/drive, etc.

If you want external drives I have see an ad for a SMD controller that you
can hang a couple of Fujitsu Eagles on ~500Mb each, but cannot find the
ad while setting at my terminal, and am not sure what trouble you would have
with compatability.  (price? hmm seems to me it was about $5K for the 
controller, and I am not sure of the price of an Eagle)  The same board
supports several other vendors disk-drives, but again the details are not
in front of me at the time.

With anything more than 20Mb you will want some back-up device other than
the 1.2Mb floppy-drive and many of the vendors offer systems with tape-backup.

			Greg German
			uiucdcs!uiucuxc!german