Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!madd 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 References: <4434@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Reply-To: madd@cs.bu.edu (Jim Frost) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: usa Organization: Software Tool & Die Lines: 21 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