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- From: dschmitz@iastate.edu (Daniel C Schmitz)
- Subject: Is this V-COM 486 a good deal?
- Message-ID: <dschmitz.714852989@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Summary: Looks like an unbelievable 486DX offer
- Keywords: 486 local bus
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:16:29 GMT
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- The price $1657 with Local Bus, $1517 ISA only Bus
- In the september issue of Computer Shopper, page 211, V-COM offers
- this configuration.
- 486DX/33, V-COM ISA Local Bus Main Board, 64k Cache, 4MB Ram 70ns
- 5.25" & 3.5" Teac floppies, 105MB 17ms Hard Drive with built in cache,
- V-COM ProSpectra Gold Local Bus SVGA 1280x1024 & 16.7 million colors,
- V-COM 14" Non-Interlaced 1280x1024 monitor, serial/parallel/game ports,
- keyboard, 3 button mouse, Windows 3.1 & DOS 5.0
-
- I called and asked some questions and got some more info.
- 1 32bit Local Bus Slot used by Video card
- 6 16bit Slots
- 1 8bit Slot
- I can add a 2nd IDE hard drive later
- The ProSpectra card follows VESA standards for SVGA programming
-
- Is there something missing from this that will cost me money and headaches
- later?
- What kind of speed penalties will I pay if I get the same configuration
- but without Local Bus?
- Has anybody had prior experience dealing with V-COM?
-
- Thanks,
- Dan Schmitz
- dschmitz@judy.cs.iastate.edu
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