Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!raster From: raster@pawl.rpi.edu (Jerry D Bain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: VGA card from OAK for $59?? Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 17:41:46 GMT References: <1990Dec3.082101.1315@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: pawl21.pawl.rpi.edu merx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > I have seen VGA boards from OAK for $59. Does anyone have one. I am looking >for an 8bit board for an XT. I computer company I work with recently ordered 30 of these boards (price considerations)... To sum it up: they lost money on the deal. The boards all went out on 12mhz 286's and 20mhz 386SX's. Eight were dead out of the box. Four died during burn-in. Three died after a couple days after installation. All were recalled after a week and replace with ATI Wonders. I am not associated with any of these companies, and do not intend to pass any judgement upon them. The computer company in question really felt they got burned on the whole deal and has decided not to purchase any more of these boards due to apparent Quality Control problems.