LMTRA@sri-kl.arpa (01/21/86)
I've heard about the Fountain PC clone that's said to be popular at Stanford U. The price is about $700-$800. Anyone have any experience with it? Thanks, LMTRA@SRI-KL (Leon Traister) -------
greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg) (01/22/86)
> > I've heard about the Fountain PC clone that's said to be popular at > Stanford U. The price is about $700-$800. Anyone have any experience > with it? > I've heard about, being a dealer myself :-) It is a reasonable clone, and is built pretty well. I have a standing offer open on the net to do a group purchase (group >= 2) of the beasts. Rules for group purchase: Individuals: At my cost, plus shipping expense plus NYS Sales Tax. Institutions: The above cost, plus $100, which should keep me in cigarettes and coffee for a while. A typical system (and my cost in quantity two): 1 Fountain PC/XT clone, 256 on the momma-board (is that sexist? :-)) 1 AST-look-a-like wih 384K 1 Hercules-look-a-like 1 Monochrome (amber or green) monitor, swivel base 1 Keyboard of your choice 1 20 Meg, 40 ms, Hard Disk 2 Half-height floppies 1 Typical DOS 2.x or 3.x software collection My cost: $1,550. Other price breaks begin at quantity five, ten and above. If you're interested, contact me at the below address. ross m. greenberg ihnp4!allegra!phri!sysdes!greenber
dmkdmk@BRL.ARPA (01/25/86)
> I've heard about the Fountain PC clone that's said to be popular at > Stanford U. The price is about $700-$800. Anyone have any experience > with it? > > Thanks, > LMTRA@SRI-KL (Leon Traister) > ------- The experience a friend and I had with the Fountain PC was not at all a very impressive one. We found it to be *VERY cheap*, and don't consider it at all to be a "clone", it would be better labelled a "mutant"! :-) It did not run a few of the software packages that it claimed to run, and the unit that the salesman tried to push-off on us didn't even have a cooling fan!!! Personally, I wouldn't even consider a Fountain PC for my own personal use, and would recommend *anything* over it, including a hand-held calculator. Why buy an inferior quality PC, when there are much better ones out on the market (besides it's price) that'll last longer than a few months, and at least have some resale value? -- David M. Kurtiak UNC - Greensboro UUCP: {decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!dmkdmk BITNET: DMKDMK@ECSVAX