jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (03/05/91)
I have been reading this group for a while and have begun noticing that the same questions about certain vendors are being written OVER and OVER and OVER. Thus, to save us some hassle, I would like anyone to send me their thoughts on the following products VIA EMAIL so that I can send a compilation of thoughts (dated) to people asking questions: 1. Northgate <-- Hi interest topics 2. Gateway 2000 <-- 3. Zeos <-- 4. Touche 5. Dell <-- 6. Ares 7. EPS 8. Insight 9. Swan <-- 10. ANY OTHERS YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH 11. Compuadd Please list all pertinent information, including: quality of salespeople and tech representatives service price performance reliability compatibility Also, people who have dealt with mail order vendors successfully, such as Lucky Computers, Bulldog, USA-Flex, etc. I wouldn't mind compiling lists on the following products also: Micronics, Mylex, AMI, Orchid, Calibre, etc. motherboards Tseng, Trident, Paradise, ATI, Video-7 cards Assorted hard disk controllers (ESDI and SCSI only please) Assorted tape back ups (CMS, Irwin, Tallgrass, etc.) Hard drives (any and all, esp. ESDI, SCSI, and IDE -- Conner, Seagate, Kalok, Rodime, HP, etc.) Monitors (NEC, Nanao, Sony and Seiko, Mag Computronics, Relisys, etc.) I will keep and summarize all replies in my home directory and mail as people request it on the net and hopefully save us a LOT of hassle. Brian PS Remember E-MAIL REPLIES ONLY WILL BE COMPILED!!!!!
raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (03/05/91)
I've already done this. The file `products' as described in the monthly Frequently Asked Questions file contains assorted comments and questions posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc and comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware regarding various vendors of IBM PC clone computers. It can be ftp'd as math.princeton.edu:pub/rjc/csip/products.Z, or can be obtained via email as described in the Frequently Asked Questions file.