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Originally Posted by redblade
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Thanks for that. If I had have read that back in the day, that MAY have swayed me, but possibly not. I was really chasing a 486 but couldn't raise the money so it was a 386DX with 4MB. Anything less and I woludn't have jumped.
Re the date AND the price of the 386, my memory is fuzzy on the details but also I know I'm not far off. Or maybe I am? Maybe it was £500? I was still only doing paper rounds at the time, but I was doing 3 of them and helping the business owner so £42 a week. Maybe it was more than I originally thought then. I really really can't remember how much the machine cost.
Maybe it was a year later? Maybe?
But the 386DX was second hand and was cheap, which is why i got it.
it was one of those dog ugly Amstrad PC2386 machines
Looked like this:
With proprietary mouse connector.
Came with no box but legit manuals, DOS (maybe 5?) And windows 3.0 on legit disks, and pirate copy Windows 3.1.
Private sale.
Just to add, this was when many 386 owners were quite rightly upgrading to 486's, which were in the shops hovering around the £1000 mark from memory (or £999) which was way out of budget for me. SX's hovering one side, and DX's tipping the other.
But ok, due to the fuzzyness of my details, feel free to play the game in another way.
Forget budget.
Using items from 1992/3
Could you
a) Build a 386DX beating A500 (not +)
What parts? Prices?
This is to determine if I could/should have stuck with an A500
b) Build a 386DX beating A1200
What parts? Prices?
This is to determine if I could/should have stuck with Amiga, but moved to 32 bit.
Big box Amiga's were way out of my price range.
aaaaand GO!