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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Original IBM PC -- Don't laugh!
Keywords: RAM chips / 64kx1 / 4164
Message-ID: <1599@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 00:22:05 GMT
References: <1747@clyde.concordia.ca> <1230@srhqla.SR.COM>
Reply-To: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michielsen)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <1230@srhqla.SR.COM> tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan) writes:
>In article <1747@clyde.concordia.ca> smw@maxwell.Concordia.CA
>( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
OC........>
>My honest answer?  Junk the motherboard, spend at least the $100 for a
>Turbo-XT clone board that'll do 10Mhz clock speed.  Your friend is
>truly wasting their time trying to upgrade an original PC board at
>this point.  BTW, RAM is extra but fairly cheap.  It would cost more
>to buy add-on boards, accelerator boards, etc, than to just get a
>new mother board and some 256K DRAM chips and be done with it. 
>

That's ridulous.  He said PC that means 5 slots.  WHERE are you going to
buy a 10 MHZ clone 5 slot board.  FURTHER, You still will have only 5 slots.
a 63.5 watt power supply.  You spend a easy $ 300 bills for a 8088.  for LESS
than another $ 300 you can get a (i.e. $ 585 delivered) a inboard pc 386
16 MHZ 80386, 1 MB 32 bit ram, and a 32 bit slot for more memory.
Pull ALL that memory & sell it or junk it. junk that piece of xxxx 8088.
Get a rom upgrade if needed (or when needed), & pop in a inboard 386 pc
with a 5 YEAR warrsnty from intel.
By the time you add a new case, to get more slots it's even worse.
This way whe the power supply goes, it's $ 60 then.  When you run out
of slots, it's $ 150 or a new case & motherboard.  By then the old xt's
will probably be had for free, for door stops.
al