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From: ruffwork@orstcs.UUCP (ruffwork)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: MacSCSI warning! (Beware Paramount)
Message-ID: <21100019@orstcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 19:37:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 19:37:00 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 08:25:26 EST
Organization: Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR
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Nf-From: orstcs!ruffwork    Dec  2 16:37:00 1985

[chomp,chomp,chomp,...]

WARNING!!!

When I saw the MacSCSI project in Dr.Dobb's I thought I'd
build it.  When asking for a supplier for the Xebec 1410
somebody on the net said they had ordered from Paramont
Electronics in Sunnyvale, CA.  I ordered there also, but...

BEWARE!!!  I placed my order with them (via mail) on
9-18-85 and they cashed my check on 9-27.  It is now
12-2.  I called them 5 weeks ago and they said they had
it on the desk in front of them and that they would mail
it out the same day.  3 weeks ago I called them and they said
it was on the desk in front of them and that they would mail
it out the naxt day.  Today I called them and they said they
had just dropped it in the mail...RIGHT :-)  As far as I can
tell they must either be a bogus, keep the money and run
setup, or are just plain inept (either way is not very good).

The company is :

	Paramount Electronics
	639 E. Arques Ave.
	Sunnyvale, CA	94086
	(408) 773-9595

My personal recomendation is not to buy from them unless you
like a BIG run around!!!

--Ritchey Ruff

p.s. Yes, I have notified the Sunnyvale police dept., and the
local Postmaster, and the Sunnyvale B.B.B.  I am hoping that I
can scare them into sending my board (meanwhile I'm stuck with
the old 400k floppies while I have a 5M drive collecting dust...).

pps. the usual disclaimer about all this being my opinion only,
	and not that of OSU, the state of Oregon, the USA, North
	Hemisphere, the planet Earth, or any of our closest
	stars...