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Re: MacGS?

The point would be to save desktop real-estate and have the "cool" factor of having a
2 'n 1 box.

Nevertheless, a refurbished 166Mhz Apple DOS card runs $399 from Shreve systems, and
a 200Mhz AMD (32MB Ram) Orange Micro card runs $775 from Pacific Business Systems,
new.

About a year ago, I bought:

case w/ supply:        19.95
Triton TX MB:        79.95
Pentium 200 mmx:    110.00
S3 2MB video:        57.95
64 MB Ram:            83.00
Keyboard:                9.95
Mouse:                    12.95

Total:                        $373.75

Add a 2GB IDE disk for $69 for a grand total of $442.75.
And a monitor switch for $10 brings it up to $452.75.

So for about $50 dollars more than a used Apple 166MHZ Dos card, and $322 less than a
200MHz Orange Card,  you can get a full P200MMX system, less monitor, which you would
already have if you had a mac.

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> Huh? The DOS cards from Apple and the like cost less than equivalent PC boxes.
> That's necessarily or they would never have sold. The premise for making
> such a card is to save buying another monitor and set of peripherals. If
> you're gonna spend as much for a card as another box, it's pointless.