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From: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
Summary: harder and harder to buy a basic system from the biggies
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.014016.15657@uncecs.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 01:40:16 GMT
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Not only are the larger clone guys (Swan, Zeos, Dell, etc.) selling
whole systems. Even if you want to move your fast hard disk and VGA
video out of your XT into a basic 286/386, you can't even buy th
basic system from the bigger clone dealers anymore -- they insist on
selling you a whole system. I guess they don't want the hassle of
trying to help customers integrate dozens of different types of 
hard disks and videos with their systems.

M Volow, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705
mvolo@ecsvax.edu           919 286 0411