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Article #20456Re: Oz Supplier for Hauppage M/B (i860 + 486 on one board) ??
From: Doug Merrett
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:49
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:49
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Steve Madden (smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU) wrote: : G'Day, : We've got a little problem in that we require an extremely fast : floating point accelerator for a PC based system, but one that doesn't : cost the earth. I've seen i860 plug in cards, but here in Australia, : these retail somewhere around the $8-15k range, more than we can afford. : I seem to recall that a company named HAUPPAGE (if I remember correctly) : used to sell a 486 motherboard with an i860 built into it. Further, I'm : sure I saw a PC on sale in the UK with this board for around 3k pounds : sterling. So does anyone have a contact for an Australian supplier (or : failing this, the US suuplier) of these motherboards, or any comments : generally about them ? : Thanks a lot, : /~~~\ ! : \___ !--- ___ . . ___ ########################### : \ ! /___> \ / /___> # smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU # : \___/ \__/ \___ \/ \___ ########################### -- I understand that WESTERN COMPUTER in Brisbane is the Australian Distributer ------------------------------------------------- Doug Merrett Internet: dcm@mincom.oz.au
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!iris.mincom.oz.au!dcm From: dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Oz Supplier for Hauppage M/B (i860 + 486 on one board) ?? Message-ID: <4632@iris.mincom.oz.au> Date: 29 Jan 93 03:49:04 GMT References: <1993Jan27.230902.11538@trl.oz.au> Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia Lines: 27 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]