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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Want to buy a linux PC...
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:54:58 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9209031455.03@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <bibhas.715456267@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1992Sep2.152942@tiger1.prime.com>
- Keywords: Buy PC
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Sep2.152942@tiger1.prime.com> cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings) writes:
- >In article <bibhas.715456267@femto.engr.mun.ca>, bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya) writes:
- >> I did some shopping again for the nth time to buy a 386 good for
- >> linux+X. My budget failed me once again :(
- >> I don't know if I ever will see X running on my own PC :(
- >> `
- >> Is there anybody out there who wants to sale a compatible PC for a
- >> reasonable price?
- >> Does anyone have any suggestions as to where can I buy cheap noname 386?
- >> Thanks...
- >> Bibhas.
- >
- >I just bought a 16Mhz 386SX "noname" PC complete with 256K VGA (I think it
- >was Trident, so sue me) for my Dad from Sam's Discount Warehouse (or whatever
- >they call themselves). US$899 for 2MB RAM, 5.25 & 3.5 drives, and 109MB IDE.
- >No-name mouse (Looks like a Logitech clone). Four expansion slots, and a
- >mini-desktop case. It came with DRDOS 6.0 and WIndows 3.1 bundled, along with
- >PFS:Works. In this newsgroup, who cares!
- >
- >I beleive the Brand name was KLH or KHL or something like that. They had
- >a 25MHz 386SX with a 40MB drive for about the same price (the rest of the
- >configuration was about the same). This is about as cheap as I've seen
- >mail-order for 386's. Though for a couple of hundred more, I'm sure you can
- >get a DX instead of an SX. (And get a 486 for a couple of hunder more than that!)
-
-
- One problem with KLH PCs is that they just withdrew from the American
- marketplace. Systems that are on sale are just leftovers from a now
- non-existant company. Magnavox and Goldstar have also withdrawn from
- the PC marketplace. Librex is withdrawing at the end of the year.
-
- The second and third tier PC manufacturers are getting shaken out as the
- high end companies drop their prices. BusinessWeek magazine seems to be
- the best source for finding out which manufacturer died this week.
-
- --
-
- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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