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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 09:11:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 28 09:11:14 1984
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	I have a Columbia Portable PC with two floppy drives and 128K
of memory. It will run Volkswriter, but it won't run dbase II unless I add
more memory. I have had no problem with it at all in running IBM pc software
level 2.0 or better that is).

	The only reasons I would steer you away from the Columbia are
1). The perfect series software that comes with it is miserable to use.
2). They were slow to release MS-DOS v.2.0, and may have similar problems
	in the future.
3). Other manufacturers of IBM clones are less pricey. (It's hard to count
	the perfect software as a valuable part of the deal. It really sucks.

Message-ID: <262@terak.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 16:46:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 16:46:36 1985
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 >  	The only reasons I would steer you away from the Columbia are...
 >  2). They were slow to release MS-DOS v.2.0, and may have similar problems
 >  	in the future.

Similar problems?  According to the current issue of DTACK GROUNDED,
that should be the least of their problems.  "Columbia Data Products...
just reported a loss of $28.6 million on sales of $0.39 million in
its most recent fiscal quarter."  How long do you suppose a company
will last that takes in less than half a million while spending 29
million?

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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug