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- From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
- Subject: Re: IBM XT upgrade
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.010400.8464@spectra.com>
- Keywords: XT
- Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
- References: <50921@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 01:04:00 GMT
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- In article <50921@shamash.cdc.com> slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662) writes:
- >At my wife's job (a church) she is obligated to use a vintage IBM XT with
- >a 10 meg hard disk, color display and IBM PC-DOS 2.10.
- >Since she is used to our 386, it seems slow to her. Are there any cheap and
- >simple upgrades that we could try to alleviate this?
-
- All of the previous replies were very good. If you want a much greater
- performance improvement and are willing to spend a few more dollars
- consider buying a 386SX mother-board. Then you will have all the power
- of a 386 at the lowest possible price. Don't bother with a 286 upgrade.
-
- I upgraded my old XT about 6 or 8 months ago at a local computer store
- that offered an XT to 386SX-16 with 1MB RAM upgrade for $159 including
- labor. Motherboard prices have dropped a lot since then, but memory is
- slightly higher now. Benchmarks show about a 10 times performance
- improvement over the XT in all areas but hard disk (my old XT disk).
-
- The only problems I had were I had to replace my old XT keyboard with an
- AT 101 key keyboard and two of my XT boards (CGA and floppy/Multi-IO)
- didn't fit the 16 bit slots, so I had to replace them.
- (they had circuit-board & etches where the 16 bit AT slot was)
- All three of those components can be found for under $30 each.
- My old 135 watt P/S works fine as well as my old Seagate 238R hard disk,
- though it is the bottleneck of the system.
-
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- ======== Boyd Johnson nosc!spectra.com!johnson San Diego, Ca. ========
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