Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!olivea!oliveb!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30 From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: BusinessLand flame Message-ID: <27Rw02E006vQ01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 21 Mar 91 16:48:41 GMT References: <1991Mar20.171925.24423@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: usa Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 39 In article cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: >In article <1991Mar20.171925.24423@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth) writes: > I have heard from a good source that as of last Friday, NeXT no longer > has a "business relationship" with BusinessLand. > >Judging from the quality of the post, I'd say the source was probably >that guy who sets up that card table on the corner and plays that game >where you have to guess under which of the three shells the little pea >is hiding. > > Big surprise there, for > all the "satisfied" (rife with sarcasm) customers they have. > >Judging from an informal poll of the posts to c.s.n from B'Land >customers, I'd say the satisfied customers outnumber the dissatisfied >hands-down. But don't take my word for it, go back and re-read all the >previous posts. You will probably find the facts most troubling. > I'm a satisfied customer. My OD started getting ECC errors. I took the disk back to B'Land and they gave me a new one. Mind you they didn't ask for the old one back. I took it home, once I got my WREN formatted I initilized the disk and no problems. I now have a spare disk for backup. Noe if only their support was that good. Nahhh, never mind I get it at my campus bookstore anyway. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bill Roth, University of Wisconsin Physical Sciences Laboratory > email: bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu bill@wiscpsl.bitnet / (608)-873-6651 KeNT - A NeXT at home, stand alone is difinitely KILLER!!! -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */