andyc@sunra.Eng.Sun.COM (Andy Charnas) (06/16/90)
My father-in-law, who knows very little about pc's, is interested
in buying a PC clone ( no I couldn't convince him to buy a
SparcStation :-) ), and has found a vendor called CompuAdd.
They have a reasonable price ($2000 for 12Mhz 286, 512Meg m.m., 40Meg
hard disc, CVGA 14" monitor + Panasonic Kx-P1180 printer + CompuAdd
MS-DOS v4.01, GW-Basic, Spinnaker 8in1 software.)
My question is: has anyone out there heard of CompuAdd? Is this a
reputable vendor? They claim a 1 year warrenty and free tech support
hotline, but that won't be of much good if they fold next week.
I believe they are located in southern Florida, since that is where
my father-in-law lives.
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Andy Charnas
Sun Microsystems
Mountain View, CA
ARPA: andyc@sun.com
UUCP: {seismo,oliveb,decwrl,hplabs}!sun!andycpoffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (06/17/90)
In article <372@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> andyc@sunra.Eng.Sun.COM (Andy Charnas) writes: >My father-in-law, who knows very little about pc's, is interested >in buying a PC clone ( no I couldn't convince him to buy a >SparcStation :-) ), and has found a vendor called CompuAdd. >They have a reasonable price ($2000 for 12Mhz 286, 512Meg m.m., 40Meg >hard disc, CVGA 14" monitor + Panasonic Kx-P1180 printer + CompuAdd >MS-DOS v4.01, GW-Basic, Spinnaker 8in1 software.) > >My question is: has anyone out there heard of CompuAdd? Is this a >reputable vendor? They claim a 1 year warrenty and free tech support >hotline, but that won't be of much good if they fold next week. > >I believe they are located in southern Florida, since that is where >my father-in-law lives. > > I always like to buy from a local place, that way you can go back there if a problem arises. Also I note that you are in the Bay Area. I was just a the Price Club (San Jose) and they have several complete systems on sale. One was a 386SX with 40Mb hard disk, 1Mb memory, and VGA graphics (monitor included) for $1999. If you have access, or know someone who does, this might be something to check out. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254