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From: ejb@think.ARPA (Erik Bailey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Experience with PC NETWORK
Message-ID: <3165@think.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 19:11:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 19:11:56 1985
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Summary: 

In article <244@mmm.UUCP> igielski@mmm.UUCP (Tom Igielski) writes:
>I am currently in the market for an IBM PC.  In looking through the Journals,
>I notice that there is a supplier called 'PC NETWORK'.  Does anyone have
>any direct experience with these people?  Are they reputable?  If the
>hardware they supply, completely IBM compatible?  Are there better sources
>for purchases.
>


I am a member of PC-NETWORK, and so far have been quite satisfied.
Although I have not yet bought any major products, I ordered 2 boxes of
disks from them (back when they were $14/box, now they are ~9$), and
they came in a few days. And the greatest part was when I decided to
expand my Compaq Deskpro to 640 from 256. I ordered 512k of 256k chips,
and it came out to * $65 postpaid (incl. credit card surcharge) *. Not
bad... I plan to get a little I/O card (serial, parralel, game, clock,
etc. ) for $69. Right now, hard drives go for $330 (10meg), $420
(20meg), and they are selling the tape backup used in the Deskpro (a
fine machine) for about $450. I am quite satisfied in the comany, and
plan to renew my membership next year. However - I am very dissatisfied
with the game rental stuff - they have not had a single game I've
queried about (AtariSoft, Electronic Arts, and a couple SSI). That I'm
NOT renewing.

has anyone else had any other experiences? Remeber - I ahve not ordered
anything big, but they seem to be nice enough (particularly the person I
talked to wehn ordering the RAM). Well, hope that helps (and maybe
starts up a discussion). --Erik