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From: wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (wordproc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: PC Clones (response)
Message-ID: <1284@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
Date: 18 Aug 89 17:11:38 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando
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/* ---------- "Re: PC clones" ---------- */
In article <3050@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, nigel@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Nigel Sharples) writes:
> Does anyone have any experience with clone manufacturers such
> as:
> 
> Swan
> PC brand
> Dell
> SAI
> Excel


I can strongly recommend PC Brand.  Their sales personnel are knowledgeable
and efficient and their technical assistance is excellent, although there may
be some wait since they get pretty busy.

I purchased a 20-MHz 286 machine from PC Brand in mid-April, with 2MB RAM,
1.2MB and 1.44MB floppies, 110MB Toshiba 24ms hard drive,
NEC-2A SuperVGA monitor with Delco electronics DVGA-16 superVGA board,
MS-DOS 4.01, serial/parallel, etc., for $3150.  

*** This includes PC Brand's five-year warranty. ***

My machine has been positively outstanding and has operated with no problem
whatsoever.  It has passed every benchmark program and every test I can come
up with for it, and the DVGA-16 board tests out as totally compatible with the
VGA and lower resolutions and reproduces them faithfully.

I have about 65MB of data already on the 110MB hard drive, from Ventura to
MS Flight Simulator and dozens of PD/Shareware packages, and they all run
perfectly.  

As a side note, my machine does not suffer from the apparent
problem many machines have with formatting, reading and writing a 360K diskette
in the 1.2MB drive, or with transferring data from diskettes other machines
have created to my machine or vice-versa.

-- Marcus Clenney
U. of Central Fla.
wordproc@ucf-cs.ucf.edu