Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!eecae!upba!qetzal!rcw From: rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.flame Subject: Re: No problem AT clones (Flame on Compaq) Message-ID: <636@qetzal.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 00:40:10 EST Article-I.D.: qetzal.636 Posted: Wed Dec 2 00:40:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 10:43:14 EST References: <2001@briar.Philips.Com> <3151@bnrmtv.UUCP> Organization: Mentor Software Inc., Thornton, Co. Lines: 44 Keywords: clones ruinous hardware tweaks doom frustration exasperation Summary: Compaq flame Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:10757 alt.flame:746 In article <3151@bnrmtv.UUCP>, perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) writes: > Compaqs are quite reliable, guaranteed to be IBM-compatible, and > give better-than-IBM performance. They're also not cheap. FLAME ON A Compaq just about took a twenty story leap two weeks ago. I tried for a week to read the Compaq's 1.2 meg floppies, gave up, and had our guy send out the hard disk. I was expecting the hard disk to be like any other hard disk I'd ever seen on an AT. Foolish me. Unfortunately, the Compaq had a CDC type 17 drive in it and nonstandard connectors (the pin type as opposed to the edge connectors). If this is Compaq's cute idea of locking you into their hard drives, it didn't seem very funny as I drove 170 miles on icy roads in the middle of a snowstorm in the middle of the night to meet the rest of the Compaq in Burlington, Colorado to pick up the machine and meet a 9 a.m. deadline back in Denver the same morning. I get the damn thing back to the office, plug it in, and the disk drive makes some god-awful high pitched noises (found out later it'd been doing that in Kansas for two months! - Businessland couldn't fix it, but that is another flame), but was able to hardwire it to the trusty Microport IMS clone and transfer my 14 megabyte data file. Whew. Ok, you can flame me for wanting to play hardware boy, but I've done it for so long I don't really want to change my evil ways, and I don't appreciate manipulative tweaks by hardware manufactures. I'd expect it from IBM, but not clone makers. FLAME UP I'll never buy a Compaq product as long as I live and breathe. Ever. Save your moolah and buy an unabashed clone. FLAME OFF Robert White -- //////////////////286 Moderator -- comp.unix.microport\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Email to microport@uwspan for info on the newsgroup comp.unix.microport. otherwise mail to microport@uwspan with a Subject containing one of: 386 286 Bug Source Merge or "Send Buglist" (rutgers!uwvax!uwspan!microport)