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From: RICHARD@jane.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re:  Tech Specialties
Message-ID: <4976@jane.uh.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 20:16:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: jane.4976
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In article <965@ariel.unm.edu>, seattle@hydra.unm.edu (David G. Adams) writes:
> In article <8911150804.AA02823@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET (Jim McCabe) writes:
>>
>>Being the young freshman that I was, I stupidly sent them the extra
>>money.  I should have talked to some government business agency about
>>them and tried to put them out of business.
>>
>>Overall, I would stay as far away from Tech Specialties as possible.
>>They are crooks, and their hardware is just average, certainly not
>>worth the seemingly endless nonsense you have to endure to get your order.
>>
>>-- Jim
> 
> I purchased my Tech Specialties 1MB upgrade from a local dealer here in
> Albuquerque for $263.07 on March 18, 1988 for my 520ST.  This included
> dealer installation and the clock option.  
> 
> I have had NO trouble with the unit at all, and am recently thinking of
> using the UPGRADEABLE aspect of this unit to move on to 2.5MB.  
> 
> 
> Dave

I must agree with Dave, I and several of my friends here in the Houston area
have the Tech Specialties memory upgrades and have been VERY happy with them.
The only problem that I have run into was a bad clock board on my first board
which my dealer replaced on the spot.

                                                     Richard Coggins
                                                     University Of Houston