NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/unix/aix/8057

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Page)
Subject: Re: IBM screws a few more customers
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:01:36 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sam Drake) writes:
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>Rather than abandoning these users, IBM offered customers who purchased
>the original "Color Graphics Display Adapter" or the "High-Performance
>3D Color Graphics Processor" (sabine) a 100% credit towards the purchase
>price of a replacement Gt3, Gt4 or Gt4x adapter.

Hang on, you mention problems with the sabine, but are there also problems
with the CGDA?  Isn't that the skyway, the only adapter on which the X11R5
server works?  If there are no problems with the CGDA, what are the reasons
for offering a 100% credit, and why should I swap to a Gt3 (or whatever)?

>That's right ... a 100% credit.  Ask your marketing rep to look up
>announcement 391-102, dated 7/24/91.

It sure didn't make it to this side of the Pacific.

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