At 01:22 PM 3/5/99 David G wrote:
>
>  My hunch is that ATX *cases* are going to more than eat up the
>savings on these motherboards; you're much more likely to find that
>donated cases/power supplies are AT instead.  [I like EFA's AT-size
>Socket 7 boards with VIA chipset (they also have a TX version, which I
>think is normally about $69); very flexible in CPU and RAM choices.

David:

The ENPC Socket-7 ATX boards are $25 each, with volume
pricing. New, adequate ATX cases are available in Miami
for $30. So for less than the EFA board, I can have a
bare bones system (board/case/floppy).

I'd rather have baby AT boards with VIA chipsets, too,
and have being buying TEKRAM AT boards for the same
price as your EFAs. If I didn't have to use purchase
orders and take bids (RFPs), I could buy them cheaper.

So far the majority of donated computers have been the
Dell 486 sort of proprietary motherboard/case system. I
think donor companies keep AT-case systems and upgrade
those themselves. So, we are looking at new cases,
anyway.

Hope that puts things into perspective.

Regards,

John Chin

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