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- From: dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: DEC Support?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:34:48 GMT
- Organization: Academic Computer User Services
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- Message-ID: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu>
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- I always thought that Digital "I wanna be IBM in the 90s" Equipment
- Corp always justified their outrageously high prices with their
- support. However, it seems that DEC isn't the slightest bit
- interested in their customers. I sight several things:
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- First, the technical sales line (800-DIGITAL) sometimes cannot even
- tell me what parts I can use with my machine.
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- DEC "support" will not even talk to you unless you have one of their
- outrageously priced service contracts. Besides, I thought the high
- equipment prices went to pay for support...
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- And now they cannot even supply tapes for their own machines. A local
- office supply has a 3M equililent to the TK50 tapes, but all three of
- the DEC distributors I called have back orders (one guy said they had
- "several thousand on order"). This is really insane.
-
- I just hope I can be around to see DEC founder and sink like IBM is
- doing now...
-
- Disgusted,
- -dennis
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- Dennis Gray, Jr. DGray@uh.edu
- "In UNIX We Trust" -Jerry Raschke
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