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From: jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do not order from PC BRAND.
Message-ID: <6531@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 23:31:59 GMT
References: <26281@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: jimb@athertn.UUCP (Jim Burke)
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Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <26281@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ephram@violet.berkeley.edu () writes:
>
>"No we designed our own.", They said.  BULL!   The
>computer arrived and there was a Micronics 386/25 board in there , The
>one with the Intel cache controller and 32/64 Kbytes of cache.  Talk
>about lying to the public!  I called them up and they said that the
>sales staff is told that the motherboard is their own design!  The
>company is sanctioning misleading the buyer.  Its their policy!

I do not question that this happened, but it is amazing if true.  Why would
anyone prefer a generic motherboard from an unknown company to a major
brand name like Micronics?  I think I would be relieved to find that it was
a Micronics...


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