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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Northgate 386
Message-ID: <39385@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 89 01:57:49 GMT
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In article <4434@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> jmn@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (john.b.medamana) writes:
|I am interested in getting information on Northgate 386 systems
|(20 and 25 MHz).  If you are using these machines, do they live
|up to the PC Magazine reviews (May 89)?  Also, I read in Jan 89 
|BYTE that it is difficult to get warranty service from Northgate.
|Any experiences?

I've been using a Northgate 386/16 (heavily!) for about 6 months with
no problems.  It took them awhile to deliver initially (they threw in
a free mouse as an apology for the delay) but the system worked great
after that.  Their tech support was extremely helpful when I had some
hardware problems that were preventing the installation of UNIX (the
UNIX couldn't handle some bad cylinders on the disk) -- even though
they themselves were UNIX-naive.

I've never had to send the machine back so I couldn't comment about
warranty service.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com