ieby@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (04/03/91)
Thank you for providing me with information on my motherboard replacement
plan. I have made my decision and ordered the parts. I selected what
was called a "31 MhZ XT 80286" motherboard. It's a fast XT board that
acts like an XT but has an 80286 cpu and cannot (not ever) use a math
coprocessor. I figured that since I don't use a coprocessor anyway, and
I'm not likely to need one in the future, that would be ok. The board
has 640K memory and 360K Bios Cache memory (you can't use it for anything
but bios cache, but it's there.) The board and memory cost $149, including
2 day UPS air shipping (but it won't be sent out for two days, they
admitted), insurance fee, and "handling." It comes with a manual that
will supposedly tell me where to connect all the wires. I figure I am
taking a slight risk with an 80286 XT board, it's unusual and COULD have
some weird problem, but I think it's worth risking. It's exchangeable for
regular XT board if I don't like it. Thanks again for the info.
Scott