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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!netnews.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Buying a computer for BSDI from ASA Computers Date: 16 Aug 1996 11:29:34 -0700 Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4v2eme$2qk@olympus.nwnet.net> References: <4uqc98$qk5@texas.nwlink.com> <Dw373L.MrD@interactive.net> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net >I've found them to have good prices, but they are somewhat inept in >terms of taking/delivering orders. Agreed. I've found that they couldn't tell me what hardware would and would not work with BSD/OS, and that one day Billy would recommend one thing, only to recommend a different one the next. I bought a couple of Barracudas a while back in a 3.5" enclosure, and a 5.25" enclosure was shipped. Billy said that they did that for better airflow, but didn't bother telling me that when I ordered. Later on he told me to buy Kingston enclosures instead because the sort like he first sent didn't have good airflow, so I get the Kingston ones and they're no better. I'll probably end up gluing fans to them to increase the flow. He sent me passive terminators when I specified active, and so forth. I found out rather suddenly a couple of months ago that Billy isn't even there any more, and we had a heck of a time getting them to send us replacements for a bunch of broken hardware we sent them. Your mileage may vary. If the formatting here is weird, let me say that I'm using a BSD/OS console, with its screwball emulation.