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Article #42429Comments Wanted on ALR PowerFlex 286/386/486
From: Marc Ries
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 17:02
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 17:02
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I am basically coming to the conclusion that my Packard Bell 286
machine is a piece of crap and am interested in picking up another,
hopefully better 8-), replacement/backup in the same catagory.
ALR (Advanced Logic Research) is a local company out here, and they
put our a box called the ALR 286 PowerFlex. I can get it locally
for $1100 (286, 3.5 floppy, 1Mb Ram, 40Mb disk). The enticing aspect
is that the CPU plugs into the bus, so that you can replace the 286
with a 386SX (~$300) or a i486(~$2600).
COMMENTS?
Does anybody have any good or bad things to say about this unit and/or
my mentality [8-)]. The main thing is $price$, since $1100 is about
my limit (since I need to add a monitor card, at least to get up
and running). The advantage (it seems to me) is that I an upgrade
when/if my budget allows.
--
Marc Ries
ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (ARPA)
somewhere!trwind!venice!ries (UUCP)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!trwind!venice!ries From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Comments Wanted on ALR PowerFlex 286/386/486 Keywords: Packard Bell sucks, is ALR any better? Message-ID: <312@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Date: 15 Feb 90 17:02:35 GMT Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) Distribution: usa Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 24