[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Mail Order Experience 1: Logicsoft

unbent@ecsvax.UUCP (Jay F. Rosenberg) (12/12/86)

     Logicsoft is based in Farmingdale, NY, and advertises with multipage
foldout cardboard inserts in various glossy PC magazines.
     From Logicsoft, I ordered a Seagate ST-238 MB hard disk and a NEC
Multisynch, both to plug into the "Standard Turbo-88", ordered separately
(See: Mail Order Experience 2:  Compuadd).  Logisoft does not charge extra
for using credit cards, so I charged them on my American Express Card to
take advantage of their extended warranty offer.  Incredibly, Logicsoft also
ships Federal Express AIR, (again no extra charge!), so they arrived in
*three days*.
     It's hard to go wrong with a Multisynch and a Seagate, but there were
some nice touches in the latter case. The drive came partitioned, formatted,
and sysed, with a disk parking program installed in the root directory.
(Could have gotten lost if I had partitioned or maybe low-level formatted
without checking first.  Moral:  Check first.)  The accompanying Adaptec
ACB-2070 controller card was also appropriately configured.
     Prices were competitive ($539 for the Seagate; $599 for the Multisynch)
and the only extra cost was $23 for "insurance and handling", much less than
the sales tax I didn't have to pay.  I don't know about the quality of their
house brands, but if you know what you want (15% restocking fee, if you
guessed wrong), for name brands, Logicsoft is hard to beat.  Highly
recommended.
 

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JAY ROSENBERG     Dept. of Philosophy     UNC     Chapel Hill, NC   27514
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