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From: jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Re: Zenith freezes + a kinda horror story
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Date: 28 Nov 90 21:00:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: fong@castor.cis.ksu.edu's message of 28 Nov 90 16:04:49 GMT

In article <1990Nov28.160449.963@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> fong@castor.cis.ksu.edu (Eric Fong) writes:

Eric> BTW, sometime ago, there was a request for horror story and I was one
Eric> of those who said "no, there isn't one" and I regret to have said
Eric> that.  I found out few weeks ago that Zenith has changed the Z549 card
Eric> early this year which can be upgraded to 512K at the same time I
Eric> bought my Z-248.  I found out that they decided to place an old card
Eric> in my machine in order to ship it off because of long delay(5 weeks).
Eric> I didn't have problem with Zenith before simply because I didn't know
Eric> this kind of things can happen, now it happened to me.  Probably it
Eric> means my next computer will not be a Zenith anymore in order to avoid
Eric> getting "old and unwanted" stuff from them.

That is hardly a horror story.  The Z248 was "old and unwanted" when you
bought it :-)  Suppose Zenith starts using a 1M board tomorrow?  Suppose they
start using the TI 340x0 the day after?  When you buy a computer, you have to
justify and choose based on what you know today.  There will ALWAYS be
something better tomorrow!  (I know, I have the Z386-16 that came with the
Z449 card, since replaced with a 256K Z549.  But I can't regret it; I chose to
buy Zenith.)

Jim