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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus the Ranum)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying (Actually, getting a clone aboard)
Message-ID: <183@gouldsd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 08:28:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: gouldsd.183
Posted: Sun Sep 21 08:28:20 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Sep-86 22:12:36 EDT
References: <1791@mmintl.UUCP> <9200018@clio> <630@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <185@sbcs.UUCP>
Organization: Gould Inc, ASDD, Landover, MD
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Summary: PC CLones - Careful !

In article <185@sbcs.UUCP>, nclee@sbcs.UUCP (Nai Chi Lee) writes:
> > My brother-in-law is about to take a trip to the orient, and was
> > thinking about buying an MS-DOS computer off the shelf in Taiwan or Korea and
> > bringing it back with him.  Does anyone know what technical or
> > legal issues need to be considered to pull this off?

	Gotta be careful with what you get on the Taiwan clone scene.  I got
a "turbo board" that had lots of memory parity problems because it had the
worst RAM money could buy in it. My recommendation to your brother is that
he find some local hobby/computer center (look in the PC Shopper) and buy
from them. That way he knows who they are, and where they are, and can take
the board back until it's fixed. I now have a splendid little XT In-Compat
(it's not compatible 'cuz it's 3X faster and 1/3 as expensive) that never
gives me any problems. To get this, though, I had to swap 1/2 the chips on
the board. I would have been out a lot of money if I hadn't been able to 
keep showing up at the store that sold it to me, demanding a replacement 
chip for this, that, or the other. With computers these days. it seems that
one of the prime rules is being able to get your hands on the guy that
sold it to you...

Live Free.
MJR
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