leland@cheshire.columbia.edu (Lee Woodbury) (12/23/87)
A friend is thinking of buying a PC clone I never heard of, the PcPRIME 88, sold by PcPRIME Systems, Inc. The latter is based in here in New York City, I think, but has locations in LA, Atlanta, and Boston as well. The PcPRIME 88 goes down as follows: According to their literature on the product, one gets the following for $650 (I am quoting from the brochure): - 100% IBM XT-compatible - Phoenix BIOS installed - one 12" high res. amber monitor (720x350) - Hercules Graphics Emulation card w/printer port - Intel 16-bit 8088-2 running at 4.77/8.0 MHz - 640K RAM on board - two DS/DD 360K half-height Fujitsu direct drives - 8 fully IBM compatible expansion slots - Runs all MS-DOS programs including 1-2-3, Flight Simulator, DBase III Plus, AutoCad, WordStar, Wordperfect, etc. - Operates MS-DOS, PC-DOS, GW Basic, Novell, Xenix, Unix - Keyboard selectable 4.77 and 8.0 MHz - Accepts all IBM parts - 150 watts 110/220 VAC power supply w/4 cables - Keyboard w/LEDs, enlarged return/shift keys w/84 keys (wow!) - 2 printer ports, 1 serial port, 1 light pen port - Multi I/O card: controls 2 floppy drives, printer port, game port, serial port and other various standard features and options. For $900, one can replace one of the floppy drives with a 20MB Seagate St 225, 65 MS. For $950, one can replace one of the floppy drives with a 30MB Seagate St 238, 65 MS. What my friend wants to know is: This sounds like a good deal; is it? Does anyone have any experience or other information about this company or their products? For those who are interested, here's the NYC location: PcPRIME Systems, Inc. 135 W. 26 Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10001 212-627-4485 They also have an AT and a Compaq 386 clone ($1100-1700 and 2300-2800, respectively), and portable versions of all three clones ($1000-3500). Anyway, thanks for whatever information you can offer me. Lee Woodbury leland@cheshire.columbia.edu