Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!bigtex!james
From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anyone have any experience with Dell and their 386 box?
Message-ID: <4695@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 88 10:50:22 GMT
References: <36530@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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IN article <36530@linus.UUCP>, dee@linus.UUCP (David E. Emery) wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience mail-ordering from Dell Computer Corp,
> Austin TX, particularly their System 310 ('386 @20mhz)?  They got a
> good mini-review in the July 88 Byte, and the price looks very nice.

I've got the older 386/16.  Has been running (unix) continuously since
I bought it without a glitch.  Very fast, no problems of any kind.

They have an 800 for sales of course, but also have 800 numbers for
customer support and technical assistance (unusual for a
manufacturer).  If you buy a system (ie, computer with video and hard
disk) you get a one-year *on-site* warranty (provided by Honeywell).
You have a 30-day money-back guarantee - buy it, try it out for a
month, and if you don't like it, send it back.

The 310 is one of the fastest 386s out there (the 25MHz machines would
be faster, but I don't know who is shipping as opposed to who has
announced availability :-).  The down side to this is the way that
speed is achieved: the "bulk" DRAM is fairly exotic "static"-column
80ns stuff I think.  This means that right now extra memory is real
expensive.
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