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- From: pdoxguru@med.unc.edu (Jeffrey J. Hunter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: 486DX2 upgrade for Model 70 A21's?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.180659.10182@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 18:06:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.152508.2014@honte.uleth.ca> buchignani@hg.uleth.ca writes:
- >re: 486 DX2 upgrade of models 70 and 80.
- >
- >I also note great interest in this possibility from this quarter.
- >Models 70 and 80 seem to run forever, and hard disks, video, etc
- >can be upgraded easily. But some kind of even quasi-486 running
- >at twice the motherboard clock freq. would be a great thing.
- >
- >I did see an announcement in Computer Shopper about four months
- >ago about a small daughterboard with a 386 on it (and optionally,
- >and external cache) running at 2x freq that was designed to
- >plug into 70s and 80s with no modifications of the latter. I
- >phoned them requesting further info, and got nothing in
- >the mail. Vapor[hard]ware?
-
-
- On the back cover of _Info World_ dated 08/17/92, was an advertisement for
- a product called 486/NOW by Kingston Technology Corp. This is the same
- Kingston Technology that allowed thousands of 286 users to upgrade to
- 386SX power with a simple board plug-in. Their 386SX/NOW products have
- gotten fairly favorable reviews.
-
- The ad specified 386DX to 486SX/25 or 486DX/33 upgrades for COMPAQ machines,
- but I would suspect that IBM PS/2's are not far behind.
-
- Kingston's numbers are (800) 835-6575, (714) 435-2600, and FAX (714) 435-2699.
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