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#Price Cuts?

    23-Feb-91 15:14:55
Sb: #15720-#Price Cuts?
Fm: Brian Cowan 73127,3543
To: Tim Devlin 76217,1372
If people want IBM compatability that bad, why not just drop in one of the ingle-board 286/386 computers. There are quite a few of them that fit on a expansion card. The single board monsters come with IDE HD controllers and floppy controllers built in. And or the really big bucks, Graphic controllers in addition to the "standard" complement of serial and parallel ports. The only real drawback of this idea is where will you put all the ports? There simply isn't the room on the back of the 2000 or 3000. I dont think that the bridgeboards are such a great deal after all, The 286 BB is not a well designed little monster — a _double_wide_card_! Like they haven't heard of _custom_chips_!