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From: webb@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Thomas Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Are there PROBLEMS running 286 software on 386SX's?
Summary: Actually Gateway experience
Message-ID: <7129@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 90 20:53:56 GMT
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In article <3717@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:
>In article <7091@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> webb@uhccux.UUCP (Thomas Webb) writes:
>>
>>[I write that Gateway is taking a LONG time to deliver]
>
>True, there are shortages on the 80386*.  However, how are they
>handling orders: do they make you pay full price upon order and,
>if purchased by credit card, are they charging the card right away?
>If so, this can be dangerous; many mail-order firms have gone by the
>wayside under such circumstances.
>--
>Alan S. Denney # Informix # aland@informix.com # {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland


Well, I ordered mine COD, but my impression is that Gateway is a
going concern.  They are still taking the time to call me (something
that I've never gotten Northgate, Dell, or the local dealership we use
to do consistantly), and the at least give the impression of honesty.
In fact, I'm really impressed with everything about them except, and
this is a big exception, their ability to deliver my system on time.
On the other hand, they haven't even come close to the tardyness
record set by a local computer shop that took nearly four months to
deliver a simple AT system, and that when it finally arrived it had
slow memory and wouldn't run at all at turbo speed...  We no longer
buy local.  Anyway, I'll post if I have any more problems or learn
anthing more useful about Gateway.

-tom

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