wang@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Frank Wang) (03/19/87)
I am looking for experiences about PC-Sources' AT clone. It seems much cheaper than Club AT and PC's Limited etc. Any comment about them? Frank Wang
chapman@fornax.UUCP (03/21/87)
> >I am looking for experiences about PC-Sources' AT clone. It seems much cheaper >than Club AT and PC's Limited etc. Any comment about them? > > Frank Wang PC-Sources is really Compu-Add. I found this out by calling Compu-Add using a phone number from a 2 month old issue of PC Magazine. When the guy answered and said "pc sources..." I figured wrong number but he said that they were one and the same company but advertised by different names in different magazines. I don't know if this bothers me or not - I mean what is the point? If they are interested in knowing what advertising produces the most orders all they need is different phone numbers. I posted a request for info on this company and Miniscribe drives and got absolutley no responses off the net which was both dissappointing and surprising. Compu-Adds 8mhz AT clone was a PC magazine editors choice a few (2-3) months back. Some of the comments the reviewer made were not confidence inspiring (in the editor that is) however, e.g. to paraphrase <meta quote> the hercules mono board seemed a perfectly compatible board but I didn't test it very thoroughly <end meta quote>. I took his recommendation with a grain of salt. They will also not ship stuff out of the continental US even if prepaid by credit card so I had to arrange an address in the US. Despite all this I ordered their 10mhz clone and a 70mb miniscribe drive and am now waiting for it with some trepidation. They said delivery (which is free by UPS ground) would be 2 weeks ARO. Hope this helps you. john chapman ...{watmath,uw-beaver,ihnp4}!ubc-vision!sfucmpt!sfulccr!chapman *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
woo@acf4.UUCP (03/22/87)
I have purchased 3 CLUB AT machines primarily because of their price and location. Two of the three machines have had trouble with the CMOS Clock/RAM chip which holds the system information. This is quite a nuisance. Another machine had a bad hard disk. CLUB AT was very good about replacing the problem parts but we had to bring the machine to Fremont for service. It's clear that CLUB AT can not do very extensive testing of their machines and keep their costs and price low. On the other hand, two of two IBM AT's we have purchased have had many more problems. Alex Woo
baller@cbnewsi.att.com (eric.h.baller) (06/27/90)
I've seen ads for complete AT systems for less than $1000. I can go to the store (in NYCity) and the brands are familiar: AST, NEC, Epson. For $998, you get a 286 with 40MB disk, 640kRAM and mono graphics. A basic entry-level system, which is what I need at the moment. Has anyone heard (or experienced) anything with these brands or some of the NYC stores like 47St Photo, Camera World, or 6th Ave Electronics? Thanks for your help! Eric Baller AT&T Bell Laboratories (provides net access, but not opinions) ehb@erebus.att.com
ctt31684@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (06/28/90)
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petrilli@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Petrilli) (06/29/90)
In article <1990Jun27.155622.4621@cbnewsi.att.com> baller@cbnewsi.att.com (eric.h.baller) writes: >I've seen ads for complete AT systems for less than $1000. >I can go to the store (in NYCity) and the brands are familiar: >AST, NEC, Epson. >For $998, you get a 286 with 40MB disk, 640kRAM and mono graphics. >A basic entry-level system, which is what I need at the moment. >Has anyone heard (or experienced) anything with these brands or >some of the NYC stores like 47St Photo, Camera World, or 6th Ave Electronics? As a clone dealer (DTK/Micronics/Mylex), I can vouch that, although a majority of dealers are quite good (such as the ones mentioned), there are quite a few who come and go VERY quickly. Much of the time, the problem is not sales, but service and support. The company I work for, we are an exception it seems, everyone here has been using computers for at least 6 years, and we are programmers and hardware people. The company was actually started to cure or insatiable appetite for computers, at a lower cost. The price you quoted seems pretty accuarate. The questions you should ask however is brands. What hard drive? (We use Conners) Whose motherboard and BIOS (we use DTK/DTK), and whose monitor (we use Packard Bell)? These can have an big impact on the reliablity and overall quality. + Chris Petrilli "Opinons represented here | University of Texas at Austin do not necessarily | INTERNET: petrilli@vondrake.cc.utexas.edu represent those of a sane | SNAILMAIL: 429 Brady Lane, Austin, Texas, 78746 person. Take them as + PHONE: +1 512 327 0986 simply that."