johnob@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (John J Obendorfer) (05/09/90)
In browsing through PC World, I saw an ad from FastMicro for a 25Mhz
386 box. I'm thinking about buying one, but would like to hear (via
email) from anyone who has done business with them, just as a final
paranoia check. Any and all stories, good, bad, or indifferent, are
welcome.
Their ad reads:
o 25Mhz 80386 processor
o 1Mb of 0-wait state RAM (motherboard holds up to 8Mb; they tell me
it's dynamic ram and I'd love to know how they do it at 25Mhz
with 0 wait states)
o 40Mb hard drive with 1:1 interleave, 28ms seeks (not bad)
o choice of 5.25/3.5 inch floppy
o 3 5.25 inch drive bays on front, 2 5.25 inch drive bays inside
o 200-watt power supply
o clock calendar, parallel port, 2 serial ports
o keybard
o monochome monitor
o 8 expansion slots, 6 available
o Phoenix BIOS
Price: $1895. For another 400 bucks, they'll put a 16-bit VGA card &
monitor on.
This sounds like a real hot deal, it sounds too good to be true ...
Thanks,
John