Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!kdale@vaihingen-emh.arpa From: kdale@vaihingen-emh.arpa (Keith Dale) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Has anyone seen the following advertisement? Message-ID: <718@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 21:05:34 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.718 Posted: Sun Dec 15 21:05:34 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Dec-85 05:54:45 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 23 >I found the following ad. in local (Wash. D.C.) BBS. I was wondering if >anybody had heard of this. I am kind of skeptical and am assuming it is >another ripoff, but I just wanted to make sure. /**************************************/ >>No, this is no joke. For $40, plus $1.50 s&h, you get your choice >>of the following, depending in what machine you have (NY residents >>add sales tax) >> >> - Fully 8088 compatible - Available in 5 or 8mhz speeds >> >> >>These chips are full 8088/86 clones, except they have been highly >>enhanced internally, resulting in throughput enhancement from 5 to >>100%. It works on Compaqs, IBM's & Clones..... Sounds like an ad for NEC V20 or V30's. They DO work, if you remember the debates on the net a few months ago.. Keith