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- From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
- Subject: Re: RAM or the lack thereof
- References: <1992Aug13.200955.27485@news.Hawaii.Edu> <5709@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Aug17.212527.26945@njitgw.njit.edu> <5759@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <BtJqvK.Aw2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug26.002836.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:37:18 GMT
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- cvadr014@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
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- >In article <BtJqvK.Aw2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
- >> usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Greg Granger) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1992Aug17.212527.26945@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >>
- >>>IBM's order takers should have a screening procedure ... something like
- >>>this:
- >>>Q1) Is any of your equipment over 1 yr old?
- >>> Y) You should know that os\2 will probably have difficulty with it.
- >>> N) os\2 might work with it, do you feel lucky?
- >>> Y) Sell quick
- >>> N) Tell them what a pleasant voice they have.
- >>><sigh> I'm dreaming ... any corp. who was honest about what they were
- >>>doing would proably be out of business in a quater.
- >>
- >> When I ordered I got screened similiar to this. The lady asked about memory,
- >> what brand of system, disk space, and a few other things.
- >>
- >> She was very frank about needing more than 4 meg(which I had at the time).
- >> She also informed me of the money back guarantee, maybe you should take
- >> advantage of that.
- > I don't see what the big deal about getting another 4 megs - if you use
- >Windoze anywhere halfway decently, then you'll need at least 8, and 8 is a
- >decent amount for OS/2 - Besides, ram is what? 25 - 27 a meg?
-
- I don't know if this was to me or not, you included my post. I do have 8 now.
- I also plan on getting 20 shortly(I hope)! My point was that IBM did have
- some sort of screening which the other poster seemed to miss in his purchase.
-
- I got OS/2 with 4 meg with every intention of going to 8, but now I'm stuck
- on 20 and a dx2/66! I'm power hungary:):)
-
- Later,
- Todd
-
-
-
- >>
- >> Todd
- >> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
- >>
- >>
- >>>Not a particularly happy os\2 camper ...
- >>>Greg <usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
-