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- From: roypat@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Roy Patrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Maximus EISA/VL-Bus system
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.233940.28309@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:39:40 GMT
- Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- Lines: 26
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- Looking through Computer Shopper I found what seems to be a good
- deal from Maximus (p. 350). But before buying it, I would
- appreciate some comments about the system and the company.
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- Maxi-EV, EISA/VL-Bus
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- Combination EISA and VL-Bus (2 slots) mother board
- 8MB 32bit RAM (70ns), expandable to 128MB
- 256K ultra-fast writeback cache memory
- True 32bit EISA hard disk controller,
- super-fast 4.125MB/sec data transfert rate
- 212MB Super-quick 12ms IDE hard disk, (Western Digital)
- with 64K 30%-faster look-ahead cache buffer
- 15" Flatscreen SVGA-NI, 1280x1024, 72hz
- (I forgot to ask but from the ad it seems to be a MAG)
- MAXIGRAF VESA Standard Local Bus video with S3 Accelerator for windows
- up to 1280x1024, up to 16 Million colors,
- 50-100 times faster than VGA, Winmark 50.1M
- (32bit driver for OS/2 available)
- TEAC's reliable 3.5" & 5.25" FDDs
- Futitsu soft click enhanced 101 keyboard
- 2 Serial, 1 Parallel, 1 Game port
- MS Windows 3.1, MS DOS 5.0 and high resolution serial mouse
-
- The price for the 486DX2-66 is 2625$
- Shipping 145$ to Canada (it would take 10 working days)
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