Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: columbia experience Message-ID: <262@terak.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 16:46:36 EST Article-I.D.: terak.262 Posted: Fri Jan 11 16:46:36 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:04:02 EST References: <150@npois.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 13 > 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? -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug