Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!husc6!encore!pinocchio!schwalbe From: schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DAK CDROM offer: advice and query Message-ID: <13275@encore.Encore.COM> Date: 15 Nov 90 21:29:55 GMT References: Sender: news@Encore.COM Reply-To: schwalbe@pinocchio.UUCP (Jim Schwalbe) Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA Lines: 28 In article herman@m2.csc.ti.com (Herman Schuurman) writes: >In their Winter '91 issue, DAK is advertising an external Sony CDROM >unit with six CDROM discs for $699. What is the catch on this offer? >$699 seems to be a reasonable price for a CDROM drive that's also >capable of playing back audio, and the CDROM discs that come with the >drive seem to be useful (encyclopedia, reference library, Maps and >Charts, Classical Literature, and dictionaries). So again, what's the >catch here? > There is no catch, it's a good deal. I ordered one myself. I talked to their `technical` people about it and there are no `gotchas` that I could see. You can't even buy that drive alone (e.g. from CD ROM, Inc) for that price. They just got a good deal on quantity I guess. Besides, if you don't like it, you have 30 days to return it and get a full refund. I only hope it doesn't take 3 months to arrive. People who have ordered their 386SX machines with the internal CD ROM in July have still not received their order :-( .---------------------------------------------------------------------------. : Jim Schwalbe .----------------. "Half of what I say is : : Hardware Research Group .--+-------------. | meaningless; but I say it : : Encore Computer Corp. | | E N C O R E | | so that the other half may : : Mail: {bu-cs,talcott} | `-------------+--' reach you." : : !encore!schwalbe `----------------' - Kahil Gibran : `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'