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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: What to do with DN300's
Message-ID: <2405@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 19:17:55 EST
Article-I.D.: gryphon.2405
Posted: Tue Nov 24 19:17:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 17:49:06 EST
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca.
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Keywords: Boat Anchors, 68030's

We have a bunch of DN 300's around here, that get used mostly
as terminals.  They will in all liklyhood be replaced with 'AT'
class machines of one sort or another (DN3000, DN4000, DN?000)
eventually, but there is something bothering me.

We *could* upgrade them to 330's by giving Apollo $5 to $7 K
and gain a 68020 out of it. But for that kind of money, getting
performence on the order of a DN3000 is not good enough when
one considers one could buy a diskless 3000 node for the same
price.

Now, what WOULD make this a viable upgrade is if ther were
a way to upgrade a 300 to a 25 Mhz 68020, or better yet a 68030.

We'd buy one for each of our 300's.

(This is a religious issue with me. DN3000's look like PC-AT's.
DN300's look like COMPUTERS ! :-)

How bout it Apollo ?  DN380 anyone ?

-- 
Richard J. Sexton
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