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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: INFO ON NEW GATEWAY 2000 COMPUTERS??
Message-ID: <1991May14.053655.27468@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 05:36:55 GMT
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pburke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Peter Burke, MIC, 263-7744) writes:

>   The design: hideous was one of the first responses.  Especially how 
>they changed the MAG computronics monitors - as if they rented a wind 
>channel for a week :-)  It looks like pretty cheap plastic, but behind 
>it is still one of the best monitors one can get.

I assume you mean what they are selling as their "Crystal Scan 1024NI".
Have you compared this with, say, the Sony 1304?  I am all ready to
order one of these machines (25 MHz DX no-cache) but because it is a
work machine, paid for by the department, I need to make sure I get the
right monitor the first time around, and no one around here has either
one of these.  All the existant G2000 machines here have some different
kind of monitor.

>   The keyboards we received were a semi-tactile kind - not a northgate, 
>but far better than the old keytronics that Gateway used to ship.  The 
>new design that they are advertising in the latest PC-magazine (and ship 
>with any machine as of last week) look like the omnikey from Northgate 
>but I haven't been able to get my hands on one of them. I don't like 
>that the inverted cursor T is gone. I hope they give you the option to 
>still by a 101 key keyboard.

Would you recommend the Northgate keyboard?  I will be using the keyboard
A LOT for programming and editing.  I'd also like to get the CNTL key back
to the NORMAL place just to the left of "A" (Caps Lock is not even needed).

>Any specific questions on those two machines - just email me.

Posted since they are not specific.  Anyone who knows the answers is
most welcome to answer by email or news.  Thanks.
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