From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Larry@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Consumers Union Questionaire on Personal Computers Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2126 Posted: Sun Jul 18 23:23:18 1982 Received: Sat Jul 24 01:31:32 1982 Consumers Union is interested in several issues regarding personal computers that I think the "experts" are most able to answer. Some examples are frequency of repair, quality of documentation, capabilities (how zippy is the execution, does it have good mass storage, etc.) Nonexperts ("consumers"), who probably have experience with only one type of personal computer, will do a bad job at answering these questions, I think. I would encourage anyone who has a computer at home (I don't, alas) to get the questionaire and fill it out, keeping in mind that what a consumer wants from a personal computer is not quite the same as what most of us want. After all, Consumers Union solicits auto experts to judge the automobiles they review (and audio experts for the low cost audio equipment), so why shouldn't they have the benefit of our opinions? Larry Seiler -------