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From: stevel@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's new System 2 Personal Computers
Message-ID: <5972@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 10:08:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 10:08:03 1987
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Reply-To: stevel@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Ligett)
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I'm amazed.  Last week I saw megabytes of garbage on the net
about all the mistakes that IBM was going to make - you know -

"the new machines will be closed, with no slots"
"there won't be any technical documentation"
"they won't come out with a 386 for fear of shooting
 the xxx".
"blah blah"

This week, post-announcement, not a single apology for the
untrue and unkind remarks.

Also, I'm surprised that we haven't had any comments from people
that have used the new machines.  I used a 50 last week, and I
want one for my desk.  It's a reasonable size, it's speedy, the
price is about $2000 cheaper than the AT was, and competitive
with the brand-name clones.  It ran the EGA mode software that I
tried - True BASIC and Tango (a printed circuit layout program).
The 16 colors is enough for me (of course, even my Mac 2 is
monochrome :-).  It's quieter, has more memory, a mouse, and
supports LIM (I mean the 50, not the Mac).  I'd rather have 4
slots than 3, but I guess you're supposed to buy the 60 if you
want lots of slots.  The little disk drive is slow, I don't
know if fast 3.5" drives are available yet.

The biggest ripoff will be the one hour minimum your dealer
charges you for service.  My two-year old could take it apart in
a minute, and my four-year old could take it apart in two,
without breaking it (the two-year old would break it :=)
Without tools.


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     Steve Ligett  stevel@dartmouth.edu  or
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