🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1990Sep18.232351.24184@uncecs.edu> mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:

   Another no-fault upgrade for original 5- or 8- slot PCs, is the hybrid
   Bullet motherboard, 8,10,12, or 16 Hz 80286 processor, 8-bit bus run
   at 4.77 MHz so you can use your old cards. Cost is about $130-190
   (depending upon speed) plus 1 meg of DRAM 256K (150, 120, 100 ns,
   depending upon processor speed). Memory above 640 K is a dedicated
   ROM hardware disk cache. We did this to a 5-slot PC at work with
   the 10 Hz board for about $240 complete. This board is made to work
   with PC-only keyboards and to fit PC & XT chassis's easily. For sec-
   retarial work, we have not found the lack of 16-bit buss that limiting.
   We got ours at D.P. computing (see the Shopper, also Leo Computers).

I'm sorry folks, but this is one of the absolute stupidest threads I
have ever seen on the net.  The IBM PC was obsolete years many years
ago.  Anything with a 286 is obsolete now!  Why waste good money to
purchase junk?  Spend a few bucks and at least get a 386SX, there's no
excuse not to.  Oh, and if you say $$$, figure out how much your time
is worth and multiple that by the time savings from a faster machine.
(UH... I never thought of that?!)

Furthermore, it is people like the original poster who are doing more
harm to the PC market than they can ever realise.  If MicroSoft had
balls, they would say that stating with MS DOS 5.x, they will drop
support for anything not running a 286.  Yeah, they'll alienate some
folks, but it will allow the rest of the planet (the intelligent half
who have a reasonable hardware platform) to finally have a software
capability equal to their harware perfomance.


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