kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) (01/19/91)
In article <oXmoV2w163w@zooid.UUCP> dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes: >ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >> I too was looking for a 386SX motherboard a couple of months ago, but was >> told repeatedly by different mail-order houses that due to short supply >> of the 386SX mb, they are only selling SX as a system. One guy said >> that the big japanese firms are snatching up the SX mb's. Does anyone >> know if the SX mb is still in short supply and is the japanese thing >> true? >> >I have heard that (in Canada at least, which is pretty similiar to the US) >the shortage isn't as bad as it was a few months ago. About the Japanese >buying up all the boards, from what I heard the problem is in Europe, where >apparently they are paying much higher prices for the boards as PCs pick up >in popularity. I see plenty of SX motherboards at the swap meets on a regular basis. No shortage here in L.A. What's perhaps interesting is that while DX and 486 prices have been falling, SX boards have been about the same price for over a year now. -- Kaleb Keithley Jet Propulsion Labs kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Offensive quote coming soon to a .signature file near you.