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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS availability
Message-ID: <327@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 12:23:27 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.327
Posted: Thu Nov 20 12:23:27 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 23:22:39 EST
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: quality control problems

Hi,

I've been hearing that there are some pretty big problems with
quality control on the GS in the LSI chips.  There is a local
computer chain here with 9 stores.  They tried to get GSs, but
Apple would only promise demo machines.  When the machines arrived
they got 7 rather than the promised 9.  Of the 7 that showed up, 5
machines were DOAs.  So far, they haven't gotten any machines to
give out to their customers.

The above was claimed by the store's rep at a graphics trade show.
You can take it or leave-it as the truth.  This store has a
tendency to steer people to the Mac, so he might have been lieing
'cause he thot he could sell a Mac right there on the spot and go
eat dinner on the commission he made.

On "The Computer Show", chan 18, San Diego, they ran a news story
quoting from NewsBytes on The Source that Apple might ship as few
as 5000 units of the GS before the end of the year.  They claimed
that the problem is with the Ensoniq sound chip.

Please don't get me wrong.  I am not anti GS.  I'd very much like
to have one, if any of the [presumably few] working ones make it
over here to the outback in Ohio.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universites' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
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