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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 in IBM AT?
Message-ID: <6895@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 17:48:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.6895
Posted: Tue Aug  4 17:48:35 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 06:50:54 EDT
References: <1272@killer.UUCP> <214@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <214@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>The best way to turn your AT or AT clone into a 386 box is to buy the Intel
>Inboard 386/AT card.  You can go cheap and buy it without any memory
>for about $1400 through mail order

  Hum.  I saw a board advertized in PC Week, 386 based, motherboard
replacement, 2MB of memory installed, 32 bit slots.  $1375, has sockets
(and jumpers I assume) for either the 80287 or 80387.  I have no idea of
the quality of this board (I hope to soon), but I think this may be a
good time to select a good replacement motherboard and buy it.  Without
getting into details which are hardware dependent, the Intel add-on
board does no currently work with all systems, failing to initialize on
boot.  The original Intel motherboards won't run with an 80387 in the
socket according to PC Week. 

  A system without a 32bit memory bus is likely to be a hinderance in
the future. Memory prices are sitting about $200/MB, and I suspect that
they will take another big drop in the next 15 months, making it cost
effective to add more than 16MB if you can connect it.

  A good time to take time.

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me