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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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