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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Crooked mail-order hard disk company
Keywords: hard disk
Message-ID: <5161@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 88 02:00:37 GMT
References: <6522@megaron.arizona.edu> <211@pigs.UUCP> <677@ttrde.UUCP> <11928@cisunx.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <11928@cisunx.UUCP>, ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
| In article <677@ttrde.UUCP> pfales@ttrde.UUCP (Peter Fales) writes:
| >In article <6522@megaron.arizona.edu> cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) writes:
| >>Well, I was shafted by jb technologies, inc., a mailorder firm
| >>which sells hard disks in Computer_Shopper.  
| 
| >My own experience probably does not warrant the label "shafted," but it
| >did leave my with a bad taste in my mouth relative to j-b technologies:
| 
| >The bottom line is that I don't think j-b technologies knows much about
| >hard disks and I would not be likely to purchase anything from them in
| >the future.
| 
| This has been my experience with j-b technologies, also.  Lousy deal.
| No spec sheets.  Gave me completely wrong information on a Rodime SCSI
| drive.  ("Take all jumpers off the jumper block to configure it to
| drive 0."  Yeah, right.  Took me two weeks to figure out that that was
| completely wrong.)
| 
| Sure the drive was cheap.  But it still is not working.

	Just to add one more j-b story:  I called them about matching
Priority One's price on Quantum Q540 drives.  (j-b's ad in Computer
Shopper says they will match or better any price advertised in the same
issue as their's.)  After several calls back, and after j-b had
checked the price, j-b said they couldn't match the price.  Now other
than the fact that their ad says they will match prices, this might
have been ok.  But the j-b salesman felt he had to come up with an
excuse which went something like this.  "The drives sold by Priority
One are a different revision (mumbles something like Priority One's
part number which has little to do with the rev of the drive) from the
ones we sell.  You don't have to worry because PO's drives will work
just fine in a PC or AT but only our drives will work in a Wang."
When I mentioned that I didn't have a PC or AT the salesman said I
should check with my vendor to see if PO's drives would work.  When
I asked what the difference between the drives was, he said he didn't
know.  When I asked which rev level he sold, he said he wasn't sure.
When I asked which rev level PO sold, he said he didn't know.  When
I asked which was more recent, he said he assumed his was.  I wasn't
very happy with this explanation.
	In case anyone is interested, the rev level of the drives
from Priority One (I ordered 5) are M or L (one L/four M's out of five),
board # 20-210102.  These have worked fine in A Tandy 100, a Z-100,
and a couple oy Wyse 286 boxes.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*