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Article #4003Re: 486 Upgrades
From: Kenneth L. Shellberg
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 16:32
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 16:32
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In article <1990Oct16.160729.1363@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) writes: >In article <4665@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes: >>In article ... kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes: >>> >>>...I just upgraded my 386SX to a 486 (Can you say $1100?) >> ^^^ >>Please elaborate.. $1100 is about what the 486 chip costs, is it not? >>I have yet to see motherboards for less than $2500 using this chip. >> >>Inquiring minds want to know! > >$1100 for a 486 cpu strikes me as *extremely* high, considering I just bought >my rev B5 for $450, cash American. Add another $675 for a 25mhz 128k cache >486 motherboard, OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS, 16Meg on board, two 8 bit slots, >5 16 bit slots, I calculate $1125, plus tax. > rev B6 486 chips are going for about $1200
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr!kls From: kls@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L. Shellberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 486 Upgrades Message-ID: <1531@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 16:32:28 GMT References: <4665@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Oct16.160729.1363@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: Kenneth L. Shellberg <kls@cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computing Laboratory, Ohio State University Lines: 18