mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) (01/04/91)
In September I ordered a 486/25 lunchbox VGA luggable from BSI Computers (see Computer Shopper) which included a 486/25 with 8MB, Future Domain SCSI controller, 345MB Micropolis drive, and 3 1/2 and 5 1/4" floppies. First, there appear to be two different VGA plasma display/card combinations; one uses a standard VGA board with a board that plugs into the feature adaptor to drive the plasma display; the other uses a proprietary VGA board. The latter has much better contrast but only supports 640x480 modes, while the former has inferior contrast but allows the user to use/upgrade to a 1024x768 board which can drive the plasma display only in 640x480 but which can drive an external monitor at higher resolutions. The system has run 24 hours (using ODT 1.0) and has not had heat problems. A speed problem caused me to return the motherboard to BSI and they have traced it to improper setup (there was no information on the XCMOS setup with the board) and they are shipping it back with a battery plus info on the correct settings. I have attached an Archive 2150S to the SCSI bus for backups, and this has worked fine under both DOS and UNIX. I have no connection with BSI except as a satisfied customer. The current price for this configuration is about $5500. -- Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408 Under construction: mikes@sir-alan.cica.indiana.edu