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In article <50921@shamash.cdc.com> slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662) writes:
>At my wife's job (a church) she is obligated to use a vintage IBM XT with
>a 10 meg hard disk, color display and IBM PC-DOS 2.10.  
>Since she is used to our 386, it seems slow to her.  Are there any cheap and
>simple upgrades that we could try to alleviate this?

All of the previous replies were very good.  If you want a much greater
performance improvement and are willing to spend a few more dollars
consider buying a 386SX mother-board.  Then you will have all the power
of a 386 at the lowest possible price.  Don't bother with a 286 upgrade.

I upgraded my old XT about 6 or 8 months ago at a local computer store
that offered an XT to 386SX-16 with 1MB RAM upgrade for $159 including
labor.  Motherboard prices have dropped a lot since then, but memory is
slightly higher now.  Benchmarks show about a 10 times performance
improvement over the XT in all areas but hard disk (my old XT disk).

The only problems I had were I had to replace my old XT keyboard with an
AT 101 key keyboard and two of my XT boards (CGA and floppy/Multi-IO) 
didn't fit the 16 bit slots, so I had to replace them.
	(they had circuit-board & etches where the 16 bit AT slot was)
All three of those components can be found for under $30 each.
My old 135 watt P/S works fine as well as my old Seagate 238R hard disk,
though it is the bottleneck of the system.

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