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In <BuE01u.2q1@acsu.buffalo.edu>, Ron Hamilton writes:

>I am pretty sure this question has been beat to death already but as a student
>I want to make the best decision....

>I am currently running a 286 (which has been outdated for some time).  I was
>wondering if I should upgrade it (if at all possible) or junk it completely?

>I am running VGA with 40 meg and two floppies (3.5 and 5.25) and they suit me
>fine but new softwares such as Windows doesn't like it...

>Any help??

For starters, you can get a new motherboard.  I don't know how much money you
have to play with, but for running Windows on a fairly low budget, you could
perhaps get a 386-40 motherboard with 4 MB on board for under $350.  The other
peripherals you have would work fine with Windows, though I would recommend
eventually getting a larger hard drive.  Windows and a word processor could
consume over half of your existing drive--and so would games like Ultima 7.

Tim Irvin   j056600@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com