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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Booting DOS or Unix optionally from the same HD?
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:18:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.011852.18530@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec26.231830.2301@weyrich.UUCP> <Bzxr0I.DJD@ais.org> <1992Dec27.234617.28222@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec27.234617.28222@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
- >In <Bzxr0I.DJD@ais.org> lewis@ais.org (David T. Lewis) writes:
-
- >>My Zenith Z-241 (6MHz AT clone) provides this service in BIOS.
-
- >I used to have a Z248, and found the special features of its BIOS very
- >nice. (I didn't have multiple OSs, but it was handy to turn off the
- >"try to boot from the floppy" feature that standard BIOSes force on
- >us.) But Zenith's many "improvements" can be a serious problem.
- >For example, a Zenith replacement power supply costs $250 (vs. $50 for
- >an IBM clone)! My experience with this sort of problem made me
- >permanently wary of Zenith computer products.
-
- So you don't buy a Zenith supply - you buy a replacement. I
- recently had a client get quoted $450 for a an AT&T 6386
- machine PS. Made by Alitec in Italy.
-
- So I found a company that makes replacements. Not identical -
- the replacement has 50W more power and comes with a 2 year
- guarantee, all at $135.
-
- Those who made propietary power-supplies put other
- manufacturers in business. A company called Power Plus
- Systems - in Salt Lake city makes them.
-
- They have replacement 'compatible' power supplies for such
- propietary names, as Compaq, AST, Zenith, IBM, NCR, Apple.
-
- The moral, if there is one, is not to price yourself out of the
- replacement market if you want to sell future machines. Most
- people don't seem to know about secondary sourcing.
-
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill@bilver.uucp
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