>Seriously though, Your 386 board will not fit into an XT box; even the
>bus slots are spaced differently on most XTs, and you can damage your
>expansion cards or even ruin them, not to mention the mounting slots
>for the motherboard being different.  And the MFM (or RTL) hard drive
>is no where in the category of your IDE, and it is questionable as to
>whether you can combine them in the same box.  Others on the list
>will know for sure whether their different kinds of controllers can work
>together.
>IMHO it is only good for a paperweight.  I have about half a dozen and
>they aren't worth the cost of shipping anywhere.

Excuse me? I have 2 XTs and I can use both there cases for any
386/486/Pentium that has an AT MB. I thought this was a standard?
Now my Pentium is sitting in an ATX case for Pentium Pro and P3.
(P2 is a Pentium Pro MMX, and is therefor slower on 16-bit operations then
even a 486 on some occasions)
//Bernie

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