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- From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: EGA/VGA cards for ATT6300
- Keywords: EGA VGA 6300
- Message-ID: <138@ocdis01.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 14:53:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.185533.4937@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan8.033334.20024@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma
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- In article <1993Jan8.033334.20024@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy) writes:
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- >Note - The best source of 6300 information was, until about 8 months
- >ago, the BBS run by AT&T from Plainfield, NJ. When NCR took it over,
- >it was decimated and although it still exists it has no discussion
- >groups which were its lifeblood. I wonder if anyone running the AT&T/
- >NCR computer operation had any idea that the BBS provided the last
- >remaining thread of good feeling people had toward the original AT&T
- >PC. There actually are quite a number still out there as became
- >obvious just a year ago when this group and a few others were flooded
- >with requests asking how to revive the machine's timekeeping, which
- >by design oversight, failed exactly 8 years after January 1, 1984.
-
- Yes, they have some idea. Right after that changeover, I called in to the
- BBS, and discovered the 'decimation' you described. Well, noting that the
- machine echoed its name at login, I sent a message to 'root' at that
- location. I told them basically the same sort of things that you said, and
- I also mentioned that a lot of people got a lot of information from there
- that kept the machine useful, and that a lot of the help came from AT&T
- employees who _didn't_ work in tech support, which for AT&T is an oxymoron.
- What I was not so politely told was that most of the traffic seemed to be
- pushing non-AT&T products, so evidently there wasn't that much good being
- gotten from it. When I asked about and address to which I might correspond
- to express my opinions and concerns, he told me I just did! So much for
- *any* useful computer products out of AT&T. Further, I tried to call the
- local NCR tech service number, and they didn't even know what a 6300 was.
- When I asked for the number for tech service in New Jersey, I was again,
- not so politely told that "You can't just call them up and chat like you
- used to. Any technical assistance is billed @ $170/hr". I then told the
- arrogant ass that I guess I'd have to sell off all of my AT&T equipment and
- buy something where the company felt compelled to support its customers.
- I've had better response out of Xerox when talking to them about their
- clone of the same machine! Basically AT&T has said 'go pound salt'. So we
- probably ought to tell those arrogant asses the same thing.. MHO..
-
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