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From: greg@infopls.chi.il.us (Greg Clawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need Recommendations for Buying a PC
Message-ID: <7D25Z1w164w@infopls.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Apr 91 13:16:29 GMT
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marcap@antares.concordia.ca ( MARC ANDREW PAWLOWSKY ) writes:

> 
> Has anybody had any experience with ACMA.
> 
> Marc

Acma is a good way to go, however, if you want to return your computer
for whatever reason.. They take 15% restocking fee.

They are a good manufacturer, but I am thinking about Tri-Star as being
a solid company you can trust.

I don't mind the Technology Power Enterprises Motherboard that Tri-Star
uses in their machines, but I'd rather have a AMI Mark IV motherboard. I
know that the AMI will have no future problems when changing OS's.  Like
going from MS Dos to Unix.  With the AMI board you have this and great
RAM capacity.  You can expand to 64 Megs of RAM!

I don't know about the TPE motherboards expandability.  As far as I
know, it can handle 16 Megs of RAM at capacity.  And what about problems
of compatibility in the future?  What if there are small problems when
running Unix that didn't crop up because you *thought* there wouldn't be
any Keyboard problems?!

Just a thought.  If you find anything out about the TPE motherboard when
running other OS's other than DOS.. Please let me know.

I still like Tri-Star though.
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\GC/  Greg Clawson
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