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From: brevard@mcc.com (Laurence Brevard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: info on compuadd 286 & 386 pc's
Summary: CompuAdd been very-very good to me!
Keywords: CompuAdd AT-clone
Message-ID: <479@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 15:39:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: fleming@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

In article <19500024@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, fleming@uxh writes:
>
>	Let me join the crowd of happy users of the Standard 286/10.

ME TOO!  I bought TWO of the 286/10 "Professional Starter Kits" last
December for my wife's CPA business and have been VERY HAPPY with them.  I
also recommended this deal to three other people who have had similar luck:
ABSOLUTELY NO COMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS OR OTHER FLAKINESS.  Since CompuAdd is
here in Austin (and has retail outlets--Dell doesn't anymore), the
additional advantage was the ability to walk in and test drive one first.

>       The price on their 'Starter Kits' are difficult to beat.  

I upgraded from the 20Mb drive to a 40Mb (Miniscribe 3650) for $100 and
topped off the 512K to 640K for $30 (back then!) plus added a second 360K
floppy (for *writing* to the hundreds of previously used 360Ks) for $109.
With a Hercules monographics clone and the afformentioned LX800, cables,
box of disks, MS-DOS 3.3 w/ manuals, ON-TRACK disk manager, FULL-BAK backup
program, and ZEN word/calc/comm (never tried it), the whole system came to
$1634 plus tax (since bought locally)!  It has since gone up ~~$150 due to
RAM prices but that's still a heck of a deal--especially since the
performance is so solid.

My only regret is that, when I later added a 0K EMS card ($119), I only put
512K RAM in it (when RAM was $70/512K instead of $200+/512K now!).  Sigh!
-- 
Laurence Brevard @ MCC VLSI CAD Program                           [512] 338-3567
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