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- From: larry@shiva.eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
- Subject: Re: DEC Support?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.235148.9336@eco.twg.com>
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- References: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:51:48 GMT
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- In article <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu>, dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.) writes:
- |>Path: eco.twg.com!uunet!ukma!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!dgray
- |>From: dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
- |>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- |>Subject: DEC Support?
- |>Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:34:48 GMT
- |>Organization: Academic Computer User Services
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- |>Message-ID: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu>
- |>Reply-To: DGray@uh.edu
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- |>
- |>I always thought that Digital "I wanna be IBM in the 90s" Equipment
- |>Corp always justified their outrageously high prices with their
- |>support. However, it seems that DEC isn't the slightest bit
- |>interested in their customers. I sight several things:
- |>
- |>First, the technical sales line (800-DIGITAL) sometimes cannot even
- |>tell me what parts I can use with my machine.
- |>
- |>DEC "support" will not even talk to you unless you have one of their
- |>outrageously priced service contracts. Besides, I thought the high
- |>equipment prices went to pay for support...
- |>
- |>And now they cannot even supply tapes for their own machines. A local
- |>office supply has a 3M equililent to the TK50 tapes, but all three of
- |>the DEC distributors I called have back orders (one guy said they had
- |>"several thousand on order"). This is really insane.
- |>
- |>I just hope I can be around to see DEC founder and sink like IBM is
- |>doing now...
- |>
- |>Disgusted,
- |>-dennis
- |>---
- |>Dennis Gray, Jr. DGray@uh.edu
- |> "In UNIX We Trust" -Jerry Raschke
- |>
- |>
- |>
- Gee... you seem bitter ;-)
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- -Larry.
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