Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jl42# From: jl42#@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: PCs Limited Message-ID: Date: Sun, 3-May-87 17:48:11 EDT Article-I.D.: andrew.wUavgQy00Uo1Io81Bm Posted: Sun May 3 17:48:11 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 13-May-87 04:29:43 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University Lines: 44 Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 1909 X-Trace: MS Version 3.24 on ibm032 host media, by jl42 (1909). To: outnews#ext.nn.comp.sys.ibm.pc@andrew.cmu.edu I have dealt with PCs Limited of Austin Texas a number of times, all of which were very happy - I am using one of their original models of their "PC's Limited AT" - have owned it for about 18 months now, no problems (it is a little finicky about being turned back on less than 5 seconds after it gets turned off, but hey- that's normal!) As far as ordering from them goes - YES! Have lots of questions ahead of time; as with any mail order house it is easier to decide you really don't want it BEFORE you order it! Their tech support people are very good, but there is one circumstance in which they don't work real well - if you have PCs Limited equipment with another vendor's equipment installed, and you have a question that could deal with either the PCs Ltd stuff OR the other stuff, you they will tell you that they can't be sure - which is quite true. I therefore recommend ordering all the major components from PCs Limited if you order the system unit from them - i.e. the drives and major expansion cards (like Memory and ports) should all come installed with the unit, to avoid interesting problems at startup. This all comes from: My system came without a hard disk - I saved about $100 by ordering the hard disk from someone else - of coures, I plugged it in and it failed shortly after I got it. I sent it back to the factory after calling PCs Limited and doing what they suggested which indicated a bad drive, the factory said yup - bad drive and sent me another - which failed a week later. I began to wonder where the problem was. In the end it was because I did not buy the hard disk from PCs Limited that it took us a long time to figure out where the fault was (turned out it was in the Controller Card that had come with the unit, but could not be detected until tested with a drive installed - and then standard diagnostics thought it was a drive fault - yuck!) So the long and the short of all of this is, as I said before, I like PCs Limited - I recommend them - and I strongly suggest that anyone ordering from them ask loads of questions (their sales staff knows what they're talking about!) and you should have no trouble. Jay Libove Arpa: jl42@andrew.cmu.edu Bitnet: jl42@drycas.bitnet UUCP: ...!{seismo, ucbvax, harvard}!andrew.cmu.edu!jl42# Hey! I know who -you- are! You're another one of those crazy people who uses SCO Xenix!