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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!drewo
- From: drewo@dcatlas.dot.gov (Andrew R. Orndorff)
- Subject: Re: IBM screws a few more customers
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.120054.15808@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Reply-To: Andrew Orndorff <dcatlas!drewo@uunet.uu.net>
- Organization: NHTSA Data Center, Washington, D.C., USA
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1863@coyote.UUCP> <6T06NB1w164w@amfent.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:00:54 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- amf@amfent.Gwinnett.COM (Andy Feibus) writes:
-
- >drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) writes:
- >> 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. That's right ... a
- >> 100% credit. Ask your marketing rep to look up announcement 391-102,
- >> dated 7/24/91.
- >Oh, goodie. Full credit for replacing it with a graphics card that didn't
- >exist.
-
- >-- Andy.
-
- Hmmm...we received our 320H and 550 just after this announcement
- (early August) and I don't recall IBM notifying anyone here of known
- problems or an 'upgrade'.
-
- Personally, I'm a little disturbed that we weren't notified _before_
- the equipment was shipped so that we could have requested that the
- display adapters be upgraded before the machines arrived here.
-
- Unfortunately, because our users rely very heavily on visualization
- for their modelling and other activities we could be looking at
- purchasing the GT3 or Gt4 adapters simply to allow our applications to
- continue to run - or we could completely drop the hope of ever upgrading AIX
- again (we're at 3.2.1 ...and testing...but that's another matter).
-
- Andrew Orndorff
- NHTSA Data Center
-
-