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From: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pc-brand 386 systems any good?
Message-ID: <488@althea.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 13:06:38 GMT
References: <206900165@prism>
Reply-To: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi)
Organization: Shakedown St. Public Access Unix - New Brunswick, NJ
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In article <206900165@prism> john@prism.TMC.COM writes:
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>I've recently seen some ads for PC-Brand 386 systems in PC-magazine that 
>look outstanding for value, if the stuff is not junk, and if they have 
>a decent service/technical department if things go wrong.  Anyone out there
>had any experience buying one of these things from them?   

Yes. I purchased a 386SX from them last October. I bought the SX with 2 MB
of memory, 71 MB Miniscribe Hard Drive, 5-1/4" Toshiba floppy, Samsung VGA
tube, 16 Bit VGA card, 2 serial ports, a parallel port and a game port.
This cost me $2705.00

I partioned the disk in half running DOS on one half and Xenix 2.3.1 on
the other. Under DOS I run 386 Windows, the Microsoft C Compiler and a boat
load of other DOS stuff.

Under Xenix I've just cooked up the 2.11 News and hope to get a connection
soon. This machine has performed flawlessly thus far. The Computer Buyers
Guide reviewed this machine *very* favorably last month, showing the 
Compaq 386s running neck and neck, or lagging behind in bench marks.

The mother board is clean and well manufactered. I installed a Microsoft
mouse without problem.

The system uses the AMI BIOS, which I managed to screw up when installing
Xenix. The support people were knowledgeable, and had me straightened
out in a few mimutes. The Manual is small, but sufficicent. I would strongly
recommend looking at them, their prices can't be beat. They been in business
for over 6 years, and have been written up in various PC magazines for have 
Service 2nd to none.

Dewey Paciaffi
eddjp@althea.UUCP

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Dewey Paciaffi
eddjp@althea.UUCP