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Re: Help!!! Need experienced person on assembling PC

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From: Mike Stangel
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:07
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koming@searstower.ecn.purdue.edu (Ko-Ming Wang) writes:

>I am planning to assemble a pc for myself. Could some one out there tell me 
>where I can get the cheapest parts for my PC. I need information on power 
>supplies, harddisk (200mb), memory, motherboard (local bus for 486-33 and 
>up), floppy drive (3.5") and keyboard.  Thanks

Well, the place to look is a Computer Shopper.  However, I would caution
you on the localbus architecture...I've heard that at the end of September,
ANSI will come out with a localbus standard which will render the current 
machines "nonstandard," and hence, largely incompatible.  I can't back this
up, though...anyone?

Mike Stangel
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