Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!mrsvr.UUCP!fish From: fish@gemed.com (Mark Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PC BRAND 20 MHZ 386 Machines Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 90 15:27:20 GMT References: <46912@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@mrsvr.UUCP Reply-To: fish@gemed.ge.com (Mark Fisher x4-6553) Distribution: usa Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 29 In-reply-to: ylee@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 6 Jun 90 21:47:43 GMT I bought a 20Mhz 386 machine from them back in March. I sent it back. It is now June and my charge card still shows a $25.00 dollar balance from them. My experience with them was a nightmare. They sent the machine without a hard disk and sent a NEC 2a instead of the 3d I ordered. Getting this straighten out took somewhere between 20 and 30 phone calls. Most of those calls were spent not getting through to who I wanted to talk to. They don't return calls. My experience has been to take what they say they with a grain of salt until it actually gets done. As the man from Missouri said - you got to show me first. As far as the machine goes. I never got the opportunity to power it up since no hard disk came with it. I did take the case off and look inside. The SIM memory boards were located such that they blocked putting 3/4 or full length boards in most of the slots. The BIOS chips were not fully seated in the sockets. And the case was flimsy and warped a little bit so that it made it really hard to take on and off. I ended up buying mine from Gateway 2000 and I am very happy. The price from Gateway is about the same and the quality and support are orders of magnitude better. You might get lucky with PC Brand. I was not lucky. I don't really mean to rain on thier parade, but I sure feel like it was a rip off. -- // Mark M. Fisher // fish@gemed.ge.com // uunet!crdgw1!gemed!fish // sun!sunbrew!gemed!fish