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- From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Gateway Unresponsive
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:06:45 GMT
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.090137.25016@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.203035.17472@src4src.linet.org> scottw@src4src.linet.org (Scott Weintraub) writes:
- >People aren't whining. I've heard horror stories in this newsgroup about
- >people who waited 11 weeks for their system! We're not talking about supply
- >and demand, we're talking about competition and there are clone makers out
- >there who plan way ahead and make sure that they have enough of their
- >product to last them for the next few weeks. They demand certain things
- >from their suppliers and make sure they can get the hardware they need
- >immediately. If they can't do it, somebody else will! Zeos promises
- >1 week delivery and as far as I know, they make that deadline. They're not
- >running out of motherboards. They're not running out of 256k caches.
- >They're not running out of video cards, monitors, cases, RAM, and software
- >packages.
-
- In October everyone was complaining about Occidental being late (in
- fact these stories were the worst I've ever heard. Did *anyone* ever
- get one?) And their related to Zeos. In November the complaints moved
- to being about Zeos directly. In December/January Gateway is it. So
- you're wrong: it does happen to Zeos.
-
- >Gateway should be suited to fit that demand. Either that, or
- >they're not qualified to lead the clone market.
-
- Sure.
-
- >I am eagerly awaiting my 66V and if it doesn't come in three weeks
- >(it's been 16 days now), I'm going to be angry. I have every right to
- >be.
-
- Of course you do.
-
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