jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas) (11/29/90)
In article <1990Nov28.160449.963@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> fong@castor.cis.ksu.edu (Eric Fong) writes:
Eric> BTW, sometime ago, there was a request for horror story and I was one
Eric> of those who said "no, there isn't one" and I regret to have said
Eric> that. I found out few weeks ago that Zenith has changed the Z549 card
Eric> early this year which can be upgraded to 512K at the same time I
Eric> bought my Z-248. I found out that they decided to place an old card
Eric> in my machine in order to ship it off because of long delay(5 weeks).
Eric> I didn't have problem with Zenith before simply because I didn't know
Eric> this kind of things can happen, now it happened to me. Probably it
Eric> means my next computer will not be a Zenith anymore in order to avoid
Eric> getting "old and unwanted" stuff from them.
That is hardly a horror story. The Z248 was "old and unwanted" when you
bought it :-) Suppose Zenith starts using a 1M board tomorrow? Suppose they
start using the TI 340x0 the day after? When you buy a computer, you have to
justify and choose based on what you know today. There will ALWAYS be
something better tomorrow! (I know, I have the Z386-16 that came with the
Z449 card, since replaced with a 256K Z549. But I can't regret it; I chose to
buy Zenith.)
Jim