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- From: dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Oz Supplier for Hauppage M/B (i860 + 486 on one board) ??
- Message-ID: <4632@iris.mincom.oz.au>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 03:49:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.230902.11538@trl.oz.au>
- Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
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- Steve Madden (smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU) wrote:
- : G'Day,
- : We've got a little problem in that we require an extremely fast
- : floating point accelerator for a PC based system, but one that doesn't
- : cost the earth. I've seen i860 plug in cards, but here in Australia,
- : these retail somewhere around the $8-15k range, more than we can afford.
- : I seem to recall that a company named HAUPPAGE (if I remember correctly)
- : used to sell a 486 motherboard with an i860 built into it. Further, I'm
- : sure I saw a PC on sale in the UK with this board for around 3k pounds
- : sterling. So does anyone have a contact for an Australian supplier (or
- : failing this, the US suuplier) of these motherboards, or any comments
- : generally about them ?
-
- : Thanks a lot,
-
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- I understand that WESTERN COMPUTER in Brisbane is the Australian Distributer
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- Doug Merrett
- Internet: dcm@mincom.oz.au
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