PE> before my next round of wheeling and dealing begins (I flogged the
PE> 486SX33 M/B for $50 and the 4 meg 80ns RAM for $50), I now have:

PE> 486DX33 M/B (you said around $70)

When a 586/100 PCI is new around $200-250 thats likely
still reasonable. You might get $100 if you dont mind the
risk of no interest and choosing to drop it when you dont.

PE> Cirrus Logic 5428 SVGA card
PE> VLBus IDE controller card.

PE> What price would you suggest on the last 2 items?

Well, that 586/100 motherboard would normally have the multiIO functions
on it so one way to price the total would be to look at the 586/100 with
a PCI video card at say $90 new, total $290-350 and look at what the whole
lot of your old stuff might fetch. $150 total maybe, accept $120.

PE> I was thinking of advertising the lot as:

PE> GO VLBus!!!!

PE> Everything you need to convert your existing
PE> 386 ISA system into a VLBus 486 system!

PE> Then list the items.

Yeah, likely best way to go, maybe with a total price and price
the components separately too, say $50 for the video, $5 for the multiIO.

PE> Ok, so it's not as good as Bob's "surf the internet with
PE> the 2400 baud modem", but not everyone's a born con-man.

True, I do get the mental image of Bob stalking the streets
in a dirty raincoat with stuff hanging inside the flaps of
the raincoat, furtively flashing the goods to passers by.
@EOT:

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