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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: For Mpls/St.Paul readers -- re dealers
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Date: 27 Jul 90 16:29:00 GMT
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Can anyone in the Minneapolis/St.  Paul area recommend a good Apple II
dealer with a good technician?  I used to deal with ZIM -- even though
their prices were list they seemed to know what was going on and had a
good, fast tech shop.  My Everex EMAC hard drive just died last weekend
(sounds like a bad bearing or head crash -- it just growls in four
pitches at startup, repeats that a few times, and the fades into the
sunset.)  I started to call around locally to see how bad retail prices
were over mail order and discovered that ZIM now seems to be out of
business.  (Just for laughs I also called Computerland:  the ONLY drive
they would dain sell for a GS was the Apple brand -- even though they
handle several third party drives for Mac's, he refused to discuss
selling them for a GS because they don't support them in that
configuration.  He did, strangely, suggest mail order!)

TMPLee@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil

p.s.  -- I now have a CMS drive on order from Quality Computers.  The
price difference was just too much to ignore.  While I was at our
Washington area office I got much the same story from dealers there and
not much better prices, even from a discount shop.  (Federal Computers
in Frederick would also only sell the Apple drive.)