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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zeos (and others) general flame
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.210446.30468@datamark.co.nz>
- From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:04:46 GMT
- References: <GERRY.92Aug24171444@onion.cmu.edu> <5500021@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
- Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
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- In article <5500021@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
-
- >colors match. The PC *works*. That's a nice touch. We all
- >know a quality product when we see or use one. You can buy a
- >mouse for $10 if you want, but most spend $100 or so on a Microsoft
- >mouse. Quality.
-
- Whoops, you lost me there!
-
- I hate Microsoft mice. I spent the money on a Logitech Mousmeman. :-)
-
- But seriously,
-
- I was recently getting quotes on PC systems. I was after the fastest
- 486 I could find with 16MB of RAM, 600MB+ of disk and a Hercules
- screen. (SCO Unix box - paying an extra $100 for VGA didn't seem
- worthwhile :-)
-
- I didn't expect anyone to have this configuration in their ads. I
- appreicated the vendors who did have nice ways to work out the cost of
- this system without me having to ring them.
-
- In my opinion, the fact that places like Zeos can offer a machine in
- any configuration that you want is one of the advantages of dealing
- with them.
-
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