tett@cbnewse.ATT.COM (chad.a.hoffstetter) (03/23/90)
I'm looking for information regarding 80386 replacement mother boards for an IBM PC-XT. I'm pleased with the current configuration of my PC-XT, but I would like to upgrade to an ISA/EISA bus with an 80386 microprocessor w/o buying a new system. I'm interested in a brief description of the motherboards, and who makes them. I would like the mother board to: - Fit in an IBM PC-XT (i.e. slot spacing same as old IBM PC-XT slots) - Use my existing add-in boards (i.e. no speed restrictions) - Have the ability for > 4 MB RAM on mother/expansion board - Based on an 80386SX or 80386/16/20/25Mhz microprocessor - Priced at $1000.00 or less I would really appreciate any recommendations on 80386 replacement motherboards that you've encountered. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chad Hoffstetter uucp: att!ihlpy!tett AT&T Bell Laboratories arpa: tett@ihlpy.att.com 200 Park Plaza, Room IHP 1A305 internet: tett@ihlpy.att.com Naperville, Illinois 60566-7050 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) (03/24/90)
I have had personal good luck with a Jameco 386 20 Mhz board. It is currently
priced at $630 with no memory. All of my old 8 Mhz XT clone cards(2400 baud
internal Omnitel modem, cheapo serial parallel board, ATI EGA Wonder work fine).
I bought a WD 10006VSR2 (1:1 interleave FD/HD controller) though, since an
XT HD controller will make the disk I/O dog slow.
Brent H. Besler