Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!xanth!ames!killer!rcj
From: rcj@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Robert Johnson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Should I buy a 7300?
Message-ID: <7719@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 1 Apr 89 04:07:39 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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With all of these Unix PC's floating around and selling for
ridiculous prices like $650 for a 20meg system with Unix, I
have been giving serious thought about getting one.  Right now, I
have a PC-AT compatible, and my family needs to buy another computer
(for my mother...She's using an Apple //e now.  Ack.) and it looks
like were going to go with a cheap PC.  My question is:  Should
I get a 7300 and give my mother my AT?  Is the DOS board availible
for the 7300 any good?  Will it run everything, and run it at
10Mhz?  Will I have ANY compatiblity problems?  How much does it
cost?

Also:  Does anyone know any _REPUTABLE_ houses that sell new 7300's
inexpensively(with UNIX)?  Another also:  How much would it cost to
upgrade from 20megs to 40 or more?  And finally, any general observations
about the 7300 (Gee...Might I get some slightly biased answers? ;-).

Anyways, thanks in advance to any and all who respond and take me out of
my quest....


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