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Wayne C. McCullough (wa...@eng.umd.edu) wrote:
: I know this is a very old and tired subject, but well, here it is again.

: I am in the market for buying a new computer.  I am looking at a price
: celing of about $3500.  Here is what I want minimum:

: 486dx33
: 8M ram
: 200M IDE HD
: HD 5.25/3.5 flopies
: sound board
: a FAST SVGA card.
: a company that knows the computer, and isn't going to give me the F**KING
: run around every time their G**-D***ed competer has a problem.  I am
: tired of runing into IMBECELS that think that a clone can have only two
: COM ports installed into the computer.

I ordered the 486dx2/66 from Gateway, told them to stuff the monitor, and
bought a 17" one somewhere else for ~ $700. After tax and everything, I
spent about $3400. That would leave you $100 for a game card.

I bought it for games only. So far it works great!

Rob
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