fleming@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (09/29/88)
Let me join the crowd of happy users of the Standard 286/10. I have one on my desk both at home and at work. The price on their 'Starter Kits' are difficult to beat. For $2100 I can get a 286/10, 60M, EGA(w/screen), 512K AT compatible WITH an LX-800 printer. A nice touch, I think, is that they throw in a 25 to 25 extender cable, and 10 blank High Density disks. I've priced all the parts separatly and can't come near the price for the kit. One thing to notice when buying- the serial board is set up with two serial ports on it. #2 costs $15 which includes the chips and cable. I've been very impressed by Compu-Add's help on the phone, and delivery time. Oh yeah, They offer a decent educational discount on individual parts. In fact, most companies do, you just have to ask. Happy hunting! d
brevard@mcc.com (Laurence Brevard) (10/03/88)
In article <19500024@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, fleming@uxh writes: > > Let me join the crowd of happy users of the Standard 286/10. ME TOO! I bought TWO of the 286/10 "Professional Starter Kits" last December for my wife's CPA business and have been VERY HAPPY with them. I also recommended this deal to three other people who have had similar luck: ABSOLUTELY NO COMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS OR OTHER FLAKINESS. Since CompuAdd is here in Austin (and has retail outlets--Dell doesn't anymore), the additional advantage was the ability to walk in and test drive one first. > The price on their 'Starter Kits' are difficult to beat. I upgraded from the 20Mb drive to a 40Mb (Miniscribe 3650) for $100 and topped off the 512K to 640K for $30 (back then!) plus added a second 360K floppy (for *writing* to the hundreds of previously used 360Ks) for $109. With a Hercules monographics clone and the afformentioned LX800, cables, box of disks, MS-DOS 3.3 w/ manuals, ON-TRACK disk manager, FULL-BAK backup program, and ZEN word/calc/comm (never tried it), the whole system came to $1634 plus tax (since bought locally)! It has since gone up ~~$150 due to RAM prices but that's still a heck of a deal--especially since the performance is so solid. My only regret is that, when I later added a 0K EMS card ($119), I only put 512K RAM in it (when RAM was $70/512K instead of $200+/512K now!). Sigh! -- Laurence Brevard @ MCC VLSI CAD Program [512] 338-3567 P.O. Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 or 3500 W.Balcones Center Dr., Austin,TX 78759 ARPA: Brevard@mcc.com UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!brevard