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From: ericw@gemini.SGI.COM (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Info on 286's
Summary: Here's some info
Message-ID: <20510@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 88 00:31:52 GMT
References: <867@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <867@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugchap@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Andrew Chaplin) writes:
> ...I'd like to know more about 286's...

From what I've seen, you'll have to pay a little more than $1700 for a 12MHz
AT with HD, 1.2M floppy, 1M RAM, EGA, but you'll be close (more like $2000).

Many places' have pretty similar prices, so shop around, these prices
are mostly just from one company.  I have no connection with [blah blah...]

I don't remember the name of the magazine that we looked in for ads 
(one of the oversized newsprint weeklies like Info World or Electronic 
Engineering Times) but it had several mail order companies with roughly 
these prices:

from American Computer Systems in San Jose 408-432-1155:

12MHz AT with 512K RAM (0 wait state), monochrome graphics & monitor, 
	non-enhanced keyboard, floppy controller & 360K drive, case, etc
$969	(basically a complete minimum system).  I have one and am happy
	with it. (we couldn't get their RLL HD board to work at 12MHz
	though)

Now, the extras that you wanted:

	and 20Meg HD.





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I don't have any of the real info with ne, so those prices are only-as-good-
as-I-can-remember-providing-they-haven't-changed.


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