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From: mjranum@osiris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: New IBM - first impression....
Message-ID: <1048@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 20:39:37 EST
Article-I.D.: osiris.1048
Posted: Sat Apr 11 20:39:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 07:39:47 EST
Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Keywords: PC/2....


	Saw and played with new IBMs today. 

1) Norton Sysinfo says it's 1.9 times the speed of a PC. I was not blown away
	by this. My 90$ 4-layer 8MHZ clone board is rather a bit faster than
	that. The on-board RAM is apparently the same (?). This is not a good
	deal as far as I am concerned, since an AT clone is ~1200$ and that
	will blow the socks off the new IBM.

2) It looks slow. Bit-mapped console is nice, but no suntools...  The windows
	do not operate with blinding speed. The shades of gray monitor is
	slick. I like that part.

3) It has the little weenie floppies. This is fine, since it is backward 
	compatible, and you can still run all your old stuff. Need I mention
	that your old 5 1/4 inch floppies will not fit in the drive ? The
	salesman pointed out that IBM is coming out with a 30$ package
	(sounds just like KERMIT)(ICK!) to transer files from PC to PC2
	via the com port. I pointed out that this requires a PC, too, and
	since an average joe clone is faster anyway, I will spare myself the
	trouble of transferring anything at all, thank you.

	All in all, not impressive. You Sun workstation owners can feel safe.
	In fact, you PC JUNIOR owners won't get cybernetic penis-envy from
	this one.

-mjr()
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