Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!uunet!convex!iex!ntvax!jbeard From: jbeard@ntvax.uucp (Jeff Beardsley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Clone Manufactures Message-ID: <1989Oct25.142228.10216@ntvax.uucp> Date: 25 Oct 89 14:22:28 GMT References: <571@uwm.edu> Reply-To: jbeard@ntvax.UUCP (Jeff Beardsley) Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 41 I don't know about Northgate, Gateway or Club, but let me tell you about CompuADD. Here at the University of North Texas, where I work, we had the mis-fortune to become the proud owners of a CompuADD 286 Box, running at 12 MHz. In the 3 semesters we have had this machine, nearly all parts of the machine had to be replaced, and some more than once (We get all our replacement parts from CompuADD also). When it first arrived, my first complaint was that the 80 Meg hard-drive was extremely cluttered up with bad-sectors (4.5 Meg Bad). Within the month the drive had 2 major crashes, and had to be replaced. The replacement drive was similar, though not quite so bad (3 Meg Bad). Everything went quite well for about 2 months, then there were power supply problems. That replaced, and another couple months wait, and we had to get our FIRST Mother Board Replacement. Original Parts on this machine now include: 1. The Case 2. The Keyboard (I hate the feel) 3. The Monitor (At least IT was nice [NEC Multi-Sync II]) Replacement Parts now installed: 3rd Motherboard 3rd Hard Drive 4th Power Supply 2nd 1.2 Meg Floppy 2nd 1.44 Meg Floppy Overall I think it was a bad choice in computers, for ANY purpose other than a doorstop. disclaimer: My opinion is Mine alone, and does not nessessarily reflect the opinions of all the other people at the university, though many concur. jbeard -- -------- Jeff Beardsley at UNT ----------- --------