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From: steep-mo@HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA (Frank Bateman USAEPG Ft Huachuca Arizona AV879-7602/6016 602-538-7602/6016)
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Subject: Packard Bell PC
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Date: 12 May 88 14:52:46 GMT
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In response to my:

>Anyone out there have any info on the quality, relaibility, degree of
>"cloneness" of the Packard Bell PCs?  The DAK Catalog is offering the
>Packard Bell AT Clone for $1999.00
>Frank Bateman

killer!tness7!bellboy!hack@EDDIE.MIT.EDU  (Greg Hackney) says:

..That's way too much money. Must be a mistake. The Soft Warehouse has
..the basic Packard Bell 286 for $999 and the Packard Bell 386 for $2195.
..(w/o monitor and hard disk) For more info, 1+800-451-SOFT

Thanks for the feedback, Greg.  I guess I should add that the 
deal DAK is offering includes a 40-meg hard disk, a color monitor 
and quite a bit (no pun originally intended, but now that I think 
about it...) of software.

Frank