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From: elvis@hammond.cs.unlv.edu (Frederick Haab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Query
Keywords: problems, purchasing
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Date: 28 Jun 91 01:31:40 GMT
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In article <2781@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> mscott@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us (Michael Scott) writes:
>
>I am considering buying a new Gateway 2000 486/33.  Before I go that final
>step, I am curious as to whether anyone has heard of any problems with
>Gateway.  The only ones I have heard up to this point is that people did not
>like their advertising schemes in the past (lots of pages, no descriptions
>or pictures of the products).
>
>Anyone out there heard any horror/good stories about the machines themselves.
> 
>Michael Scott

Well, the computing services department at UNLV just got a 386/33 with
gateway's groovy keyboard.  I only played with it for a few minutes
but I thought it was excellent, and I haven't heard of any problems
with it either.  In fact, computing services plans to replace 20
zenith ibm clones (ancient 8086's), and are trying to work out the
deal now.

And the ONLY adds I've seen had color pictures, and described exactly
what comes with each pre-arranged system, and a friendly little
call for price for a specific set-up message.

Frederick Haab