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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!vivanet!daw
- From: daw@vivanet.com (David A. Wolf)
- Subject: Re: Hardware support HORROR story!
- Organization: VIVATRON Corporation
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 21:51:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzKvDE.HCv@vivanet.com>
- Followup-To: poster
- Summary: Another PC expert stricks again
- References: <1992Dec18.024211.26235@bilver.uucp> <BzGEu2.1yn@world.std.com>
- Sender: David A. Wolf
- Lines: 35
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- In article <BzGEu2.1yn@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
- >bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- >: What the hell has happened to support in this country anyway?
- >:
- >: Has anybody else had anything like this happen to them, or we
- >: just unusually lucky :-(.
- >:
- >Oh, how about breaking a motherboard while installing a multiport
- >card? Breaking as in knocking chips right off?
- >
- [ stuff deleted ]
- >Here's the problem, the reason, and the explanation: there is a
- >limited supply of intelligence. The number of computers needing
- >service has now exceeded the number of intelligent people
- >available. So fools are sent to do service.
- >
- > Tony apl@world.std.com
- >
- >Lawrence & Clark, Inc (617) 762-0707 (206) 323-2864
- >Xenix/Unix support,etc Boston Seattle
-
- MY PERSONAL FAVORITE...
- Got a call from a company (sco referred them to me) that needed
- their XENIX re-installed. Apparently they were offered this
- great PC TUNE-UP ($49.95) by a local computer retailer. They came in a
- ran some PC diags, re-fragmentation software, DOS Diags etc.
- The tech left telling the customer their system is in great shape!
- OF COURSE XENIX NOW WAS GONE!!
-
- David A. Wolf Toll: 716-272-0820
- VIVATRON Corporation Free: 800-836-UNIX
- Rochester, New York, USA Fax: 716-272-7627
- SCO Advanced Product Center email: daw@vivanet.com
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