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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: Pentium Bridgeboard.....Would you buy one?
- Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:07:03 GMT
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- References: <4hoer5$de1@earth.superlink.net>
- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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- In article <4hoer5$de1@earth.superlink.net>, dcinege@superlink.net (Dave Cinege) writes:
- >This is not being designed. It is not being worked on. It is an IDEA!
- >Please do not call me 10 times a day asking when it will be ready, or
- >start telling people that it is coming out.
- >I am asking this to get some idea of marketability.
- >
- >I was thinking about getting back in the bridgeboard business.
- >
- >If we could produce the following would you being interested?
- >What else would you want? Are the prices within reason?
- >
- >Pentium bridgeboard -
- >
- >75 - 166MHz Pentium CPU
- >Cache memory
- >72 Pin simms
- >
- >UVGA on board (that shares system ram, or has 2mb of it's own.)
- >
- >2 16550 serial
- >1 EPP ECC parallel All on board
- >Floppy controller
- >EIDE controller
- >
- >Features:
- >Works in the 2/3/4000, and 3/4000T.
- >Share Amiga mouse, keyboard, floppy.
- >Built in video switch for single monitor use.
- >Switch over to the IBM side and back with a hot key and icon/screen.
- >
- >A high retail price of $995 bare. (Meaning it will hopefully be a little
- >lower from your dealer) And say $1495 with 16mb and a 90MHz Pentium.
-
- I'm afraid your prices are high. I recently bought a P90 system for
- $1699, with 16mb, Sound Blaster AWE32, ATI Mach 64 Graphics card (PCI),
- 800Meg HD, EPP Parallel, 2 16440 serial, Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller
- (PCI), and on-board IDE.
-
- You system doesn't have the graphics, the SCSI, the sound, or the HD,
- which would drop the price tremendously. In fact, I can get my same
- system without those for < $800.
-
- >How important would direct file transfer be to you?
-
- Fairly, for ease of use, but not essential.
-
- >How about being able to share the Amiga harddrive? The IBM harddrive?
-
- Either or both would save $300 or so by not having to buy a separate HD
- for each side.
-
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- Jim Cooper
- (jamie@unx.sas.com) bix: jcooper
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