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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Would like to compile thoughts of various clone makers
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Date: 4 Mar 91 23:53:27 GMT
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I have been reading this group for a while and have begun noticing that the
same questions about certain vendors are being written OVER and OVER and
OVER.  Thus, to save us some hassle, I would like anyone to send me their
thoughts on the following products VIA EMAIL so that I can send a
compilation of thoughts (dated) to people asking questions:

1.  Northgate                <--  Hi interest topics
2.  Gateway 2000             <--
3.  Zeos                     <--
4.  Touche
5.  Dell                     <--  
6.  Ares
7.  EPS				
8.  Insight
9.  Swan                     <-- 
10.  ANY OTHERS YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH
11.  Compuadd

Please list all pertinent information, including:

quality of salespeople and tech representatives
service
price
performance
reliability
compatibility

Also, people who have dealt with mail order vendors successfully, such as
Lucky Computers, Bulldog, USA-Flex, etc.

I wouldn't mind compiling lists on the following products also:

Micronics, Mylex, AMI, Orchid, Calibre, etc. motherboards
Tseng, Trident, Paradise, ATI, Video-7 cards
Assorted hard disk controllers (ESDI and SCSI only please)
Assorted tape back ups (CMS, Irwin, Tallgrass, etc.)
Hard drives (any and all, esp. ESDI, SCSI, and IDE -- Conner, Seagate,
Kalok, Rodime, HP, etc.)
Monitors (NEC, Nanao, Sony and Seiko, Mag Computronics, Relisys, etc.)

I will keep and summarize all replies in my home directory and mail as
people request it on the net and hopefully save us a LOT of hassle.

Brian

PS Remember E-MAIL REPLIES ONLY WILL BE COMPILED!!!!!