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- From: steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Loopy - the spineless boy)
- Subject: Re: Memory upgrades for R4000 Indigos
- Message-ID: <nr24se4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul26.045223.11600@news.nd.edu> <1992Jul27.163455.28486@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:12:56 GMT
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- In <1992Jul27.163455.28486@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul26.045223.11600@news.nd.edu> root@sanger.chem.nd.edu (Doctor
- >Math) writes:
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- >> I'm certainly not going to say that the machines are inferior from a
- >> technological standpoint. I am going to wonder about the sales folk, though.
- >> I have a fax from SGI quoting prices for machines. I want to get an R4000
- >> Indigo or a Crimson without a disk, RAM, or a monitor (we are retiring some
- >> elderly 4D/20s). The cover page pointed out that the warranty would be
- >> void if ANY third-party stuff of ANY kind was installed.
-
- >Gee, all 90 days of it?
-
- Yeah, it sucks doesn't it? Engineering has been battling marketing over this
- on the r4K indigo for a while. We think the product is reliable enough to
- warrant a 1 year warranty. They think it will cost us too much money.
- I'm not conviced the battle is over, yet...
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- Steve Valin Silicon Graphics - Interactive Systems Division
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