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From: evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall)
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Subject: PCs for Mainland China
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 07:09:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 07:09:21 1986
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Does anyone have experience with PCs in China? A friend of mine is a
Physics professor there and is looking to upgrade from his 4 yr old Apple 2.
I would have no trouble giving advice to someone in his position in this
country, but we are very spoiled here. Basically he needs something with a
Fortran compiler (when his University finally got a "mainframe" a couple of
grad students wrote a Basic compiler for it to run the various pieces of code
that had been written for the Apple 2!) and relability. The Apple has been
very good having 0 problems (they run it from truck batteries and an inverter).
He told me of a horror story about a friend who bought a PC in this country
last year, only to have it die in China. Getting it to the closest repair
depot has proven to have been impossible.

thanks for any info!

Steve Crandall

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