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From: naparst@cartan.BERKELEY.EDU (Harold Naparst)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC's Limited "Turbo PC" query
Message-ID: <12148@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 23:25:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 23:25:11 1986
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Keywords: clone, PC, PC's Limited, Turbo PC

In article <570@talcott.UUCP> gst@talcott.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
>
>I need to purchase a PC soon, and have developed an interest in the
>"Turbo PC" advertised in just about every issue of Infoworld and Byte.
>The ad claims the machine (which has 640K on motherboard, floppy drive,
>AT keyboard, and 130W power supply, and runs either at 4.77 mHz or 6.66
>mHz) "runs all major software for the IBM PC".
>
>Anyway....    I would like to hear what anyone who has used the machine or
>has one thinks and feels about it, especially as regards IBM compatibility
>at the ROM BIOS level.  The PC's Limited people claim they wrote the BIOS
>themselves--which makes me a bit wary, especially after what I read here
>recently about what an accomplishment it was for the people at Phoenix.
>(By the way, does anyone know whether they sell the ROM as a plug-in
>replacement for clones that don't quite make it BIOS-wise?)
>
  I bought the PC's Limited Turbo clone last week, and it works fine.
The main problems are not with the hardware, but with the support from
PC's Limited.  First, you have to call them long distance, wait on hold
for fifteen minutes, and then some of the tech support guys have the
attitude that "We just sell the stuff and expect you to experiment."
  The monitor is VERY nice, a Princeton Graphics monitor for $159.
I would get the Universal Graphics Adapter if I were you, since you can
do color graphics programs on a monochrome screen this way, and it is
only $259.
  I am sorry that I have no more data about the BIOS and such, but all
my programs seem to work OK and the turbo feature even works !

Harold Naparst



ucbvax!brahms!naparst	Harold Naparst/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720