Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!ge-dab!peora!ucf-cs!wordproc 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 Distribution: na Organization: Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando Lines: 41 /* ---------- "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