bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) (04/17/91)
Well, I've decided that if the bank was stupid enough to send me a gold card, I must therefore be stupid and use it. I don't have any A2 mags. So I guess I'm kind've taking advantage of the collective conciousness of the net. Please bear with me. Currently I've got a ROM 01 GS with a mono monitor, an Apple 3.5 drive (thanx, Scott), an Rev. C SCSI card, a HBHD-Seagate ~40 MB (thanx, Scott), a Ventel 2400 (thanx, Scott), a System Saver IIGS (thanx, Scott), a GS-RAM 1.5Meg non-DMA (memory - thanx, Scott) , and a ZIP GSX 8MHz/16k (thanx ME!). I'm feeling like I want to move up to a Ramfast SCSI. That means I have to send my GSX in for work (its an old pre-DMA fix one), and I have to replace my memory board too. Is the OCTORAM still available? Where from? Where should I buy my CVTECH card from, and can I buy the new ROM from a mail order company (I like overnite shipping - immediate gratification)? Also, I just got a MIDI compatible device and I don't have a stereo card. Is there a card that does MIDI, stereo and sampling all in one? Is it any good? What is its sampling quality like (noisy or no)? And finally, I have heard a lot of good things about a Magnavox monitor (mostly that it is cheap and has a tuner!) that has Analog RGB in available. Where can I find this beast? If it doesn't exist, what about the Sony beast? Thanx, and reply soon! (As my gold card credit line is rapidly shrinking! :) ) Brendan G. Hoar bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu Apartment 1 Carnegie Mellon, Inc. 357 Melwood Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 621-8278
ART100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Andy Tefft 725-1344", 814) (04/18/91)
I don't know why, but I've had awful luck lately trying to order Apple stuff mail-order. My dad orders fishing stuff all the time, no problems. I order CD's from Noteworthy, it comes right away. It takes me over a month to get Apple stuff. I was going to get three items for my //e: an enhancement kit, a Ramworks III (1 meg), and a 5.25" drive. I thought I'd be able to shop around and find a place that would have all three of them at good prices. Unfortunately I couldn't; the best prices on the items were at different places (I looked at ads in a+ and called places that didn't list certain things). So I notice Quality Computer's ad, which says they will match advertised lower prices. They wouldn't match ANY of the prices they had. They had a load of excuses... "They usually sell used enhancement kits..." "They usually don't have those in stock; we do" and "AE raised the price on that drive." I ordered the Ramworks for $178 from Golem. They didn't have them in stock, but would have them in 2 days and would ship them by the end of the week. They ended up shipping it about 2 *weeks* after that. It was shipped with one of the ram chips bad, so I had only 768k while I waited for them to replace it (actually I eventually put 64k in it from my 80-col card). It took them another 2 weeks to send me a frickin' 75 cent RAM chip. But they have given me the BEST service overall. CDA computer sales was the only place that could still give me the AE 5.25" drive for $118 (don't ask me why I didn't want to get the laser drive), and they had the ehnancement kits for $52. Since they had no shipping charges, this was a very good deal, although the price they quoted for the ramworks was more than I paid at Golem (with shipping included). They had the enhancement kits in stock, but the drive was backordered and would be about 10 days. Ok, fine, I said, just ship me the enhancement kit now and the drive when it comes. I got the enhancement kit in a couple days and was happy so far with this company. The packing slip they sent (with credit card receipt) said they had only charged my credit card for the enhancement kit; no problem. Then I got my credit card bill, which had been billed in ONE TRANSACTION for the full amount of the kit and the drive. I called CDA, since it had been over a month since I ordered, and they said the drive was still backordered and AE had been giving everyone problems with delivery of them. I asked them to give me a credit on my credit card, because I wanted to pay the credit card bill but not for the drive I hadn't gotten, and, get this, they WOULDN'T DO IT. What they said to do was pay all of the bill except for the $118 for the drive, and then send them a copy of my bill and they'd pay the interest on it. Yeah, right, I thought. A call to the credit card company agreed that this was not the thing to do, and if they wouldn't credit the account, I should tell them to cancel the order and then re-order, and then if they charged the card before shipping the drive I could dispute the charges and I'd be ok. I didn't want to get put back at the end of the backorder queue, so I just cancelled the backorder and ordered the drive (at a cost of $12 more) from Preferred Computing, who said they had them in stock. They said it would ship on Monday; hopefully I will get the drive tomorrow. CDA gave me a "cancellation number;" hopefully my credit card will be credited, or else I will be REALLY mad!
R1DEC%AKRONVM@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (04/18/91)
For good service on what they carry, I have been very pleased with Software Plu s. The deliveries are timely and they always try to help.
whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) (04/21/91)
|Also, I just got a MIDI compatible device and I don't have a stereo |card. Is there a card that does MIDI, stereo and sampling all in one? |Is it any good? What is its sampling quality like (noisy or no)? | |And finally, I have heard a lot of good things about a Magnavox |monitor (mostly that it is cheap and has a tuner!) that has Analog RGB |in available. Where can I find this beast? If it doesn't exist, |what about the Sony beast? | |Thanx, and reply soon! (As my gold card credit line is rapidly |shrinking! :) ) MIDI+stereo+sampling = Audio Animator, which comes with it's own 12-bit ADC. GS compatible Magnavox -> Magnavox 1CM135, Lyco has it in stock, mine is in been sent even as I type this post. You need a cable though, which you can either make or get from Perferred(?) Computing located near from in an InCider magazine. <-- Change that it's Quality Computers and they also sell CV Techs RAM card, which holds 4MB and you can piggyback another DMA RAM card hand you can have 8MB. CV Techs card has special logic circuits which mirrors the banks (forgot the whole detail) to let you DMA the whole 8MB. Only has trouble with some AE RAM cards though. INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil