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- From: gregb@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Greg Begay)
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:02:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: Occidental Systems
- Message-ID: <15660013@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- References: <1992Aug26.213028.22647@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- >The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that
- >Occidental Systems is an unacknowledged subsidiary
- >of Zeos. This is seemingly good, since Zeos is
- >reported to have good systems and the Occidental
- >prices are fairly low.
-
- >The ads I've seen, however, show the Occidental
- >systems using local bus video while the Zeos
- >systems use Diamond Stealth video. This suggests
- >to me that the two systems are not necessarily
- >of the same quality. Has anyone out there used
- >Occidental equipment and formed any opinion as
- >to quality? Do they provide the same customer
- >service as they do for their Zeos line?
-
- I called Occidental to inquire about their 486sx computer.
- The sales person I talked to claimed that local bus video
- is superior to any other 16 or 24 bit display card, better
- than Diamond Stealth. He also stated that their local bus
- video is integrated with the mother board - what ever that
- means?!? I'm sceptical only because I don't know enough
- about local bus video to know the difference.
-
- Could anyone who *does* know the difference comment? I would
- also like to hear from anyone with experience with Occidental
- computers.
-
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- >Keith Bockus
- >----------
-
- GregB
-