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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
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- Subject: Re: Upgrade 286 or Junk it.......
- Message-ID: <exuptr.610.716590641@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 20:57:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.174015.25903@csx.cciw.ca> hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley) writes:
- >In article <9132@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> gedwards@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
-
- >>I recently upgrade from a 286 to a 386-40 and got the motherboard for $199.
-
- >I did too. Mine was $450 Can$ with 4MB RAM.
-
- Pretty good prices, in all.
-
- >>You'll probably need a new case, most of the 286 cases (I think) are not
- >>built in such a way that the 386 board would fit correctly. A new case with
- >>power supply is abour $75.
-
- >My case is a baby-AT. The 386 motherboard is for a baby-AT. It fits just
- >fine. As long as you buy a motherboard compatible with your case you should
- >be fine.
-
- I concur with the second person, here.
-
- >>You might also consider getting Stacker or something similair to increase
- >>your disk space if you're going to be running huge applications like Windows.
-
- >I agree; Stacker 2.0 is a good idea. With a 386-40 I don't even notice any
- >de/compression lag.
-
- Stacker actually *improves* your speed on faster machines. Turns out
- decompressing is faster than reading the extra data off the disk.
-
- Don't be afraid to trash a 286. I'm going to have to do this myself, since
- my 286 will not support IDE drives. Crap. But it's a good excuse ;-)
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