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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: An economical, OS/2-friendly systems vendor?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.214506.2617@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:45:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.091445.14571@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan8.091445.14571@samba.oit.unc.edu> Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes:
- >Compaq and IBM will steer you well, but their hardware is relatively
- >exhorbitant to begin with anyways. I need to write ray tracers, so I'm
- >not interested in their "value point" systems.
- >Oyes, the system: 486DX2/66, 16MB, Nec 4FG, 340 MB HD, Tseng card. Anyone
- >know of anyone who packages things better for under $4000?
-
- Here's what I have from IBM on this. These are educational prices:
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- IBM PS/2 Model 77 486DX2 (66/33), Microchannel (four slots available),
- 8 MB RAM, 212 MB hard drive, SCSI-2 busmastering adapter, XGA-2
- busmastering coprocessed adapter, OS/2 2.00.1 preloaded, 2.88 MB 3.5
- inch floppy drive, with IBM 9517 seventeen inch Trinitron (.26dp)
- monitor (supporting 75 Hz VGA modes, 88 Hz text modes, and 72 Hz
- 1024x768 noninterlaced, I believe).........................$4052.
-
- Pretty competitive, according to what you've told.
-
- If a 486SLC2 (25/50) processor is enough (performs almost exactly the
- same as a 486SX-33), you can get a Model 56 with the exact same specs,
- exact same monitor, except 3 open slots (and a maximum of 16 MB RAM),
- for $3092.
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