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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: The whole story on Gateway (was Re: Gateway 2000)
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.162821.2498@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 27 Mar 91 16:28:21 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.132658.25149@cbfsb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
>You DO want the tape drive software.  The CMS software supplied 
>with this tape drive is far superior to that supplied by
>third party support such as PCTOOLS for this drive.
>
>>>I complained again. I said I'd tell my credit card company not to pay and
>>>I'd hold the stuff that I already got hostage until I got a Colorado factory 
>>>box. 
>>
>
>Why do you expect this particular item to be supplied in the 
>original equipment carton?  Gateway sends you the monitor in
>their own carton and not that of the original equipment
>manufacturer; same goes for every other item such as the 
>the Keytronics keyboard and the MS mouse.
>
>You shouldn't have to accept a scratched faceplate, however.
>
>>They should be able to send you everything that was originally in the box

...etc.....


One simple point to be made here is that despite all the yabbering that is
going on about Gateway 2000, there are happy customers, and as seen here,
unhappy customers.

I know some three people with Gateway 2000 machines and they wouldn't trade
them for anything in the world.

However, I know people who love IBM PS/2s, and wouldn't trade them for anything
else either.  In the end, no amount of bickering is going to change anybodys
opinion on these matters.  It's strictly a case of luck.

./*-

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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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