bunte@ibd.BRL.MIL (Steven Bunte ) (12/30/88)
Hello Netters! I am considering the purchase of a 386/25MHz machine from Northgate Computer System of Plymouth, MN. The system is as follows: 386/25 Intel processor 256K High speed read/write cache 4 MB RAM 1.2 MB Floppy 1.44 MB Floppy DOS 4.01 Manuals 65 MB 28ms RLL Hard drive with 1:1 interleave 16 bit controller VGA Multisynch monitor 1 year warranty Cost:$7724 Does anyone out there have any experience with Northgate products-- good or bad?? Thanks in advance for any responses!!! Steve
bill@cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson) (01/01/89)
In article <231@ibd.BRL.MIL>, bunte@ibd.BRL.MIL (Steven Bunte ) writes: > Hello Netters! > > I am considering the purchase of a 386/25MHz machine from > Northgate Computer System of Plymouth, MN. The system is > as follows: > I bought one of their keyboards because it was raved about by an Infoworld columnist (Gibson). The keyboard ain't that great - you can get the tactile and audible "click" feedback without having the key detected if you don't press it all the way. They reproduced the guy's review in subsequent advertising, but personally, I think they paid the guy off. It may be a good computer though. Just my two cents worth. -- Bill Michaelson - uh... princeton!mccc!cosi!bill, I think. also at... Voice 609-771-6705 CompuServe 72416,1026
andyl@palnet.UUCP ([Andy Lester]) (01/02/89)
I can't arg tell whether the price is acn ny good or not, but as I'm loo
king around
the market myself right now, but I DO have expereince ience with Northgat
e.
About a ear year ago, we my company wanted to t get an AT system for doing
maybe doing
some new development, a so all this was very new. We got the box
from BNor Northgate, plugged it in, and everything e worked perfectly out of
the
box, notwithstanding the addition of a Periscope debugging card.
Only thing is that the monitor died after about 2 days. We spent
most of 2 days after that trying to get thru on their tech support
line, but when t we did git et thru, we the FedExd the replacement monitor
to
us, no q uest ua s, no questons ions, n
o returns necessary. They stuck in a little note saying
"Please return the busted one to us. We're being nice to
you bu y sending this to you w/o getting the old one back, so don't
screw us, please." No problems since.
When I sai y that it ran right out of the box, I mean t meant that the H
D is
formate ted with all the software installed on it. , or at least
was for us. They were also very nice about making substitutions for
drives for us. It cocme mes w And, the drive is f that e faster st
that I've seen. The
Andy Andy
(Official Usenetish -ish disclaimer: I have no connection to Northgate,
other than being thisclose to getting one of my own) :-)