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Re: Atlanta Computer Shops?

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From: Sandra Powell
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00
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On 21 Jun 1996 18:48:32 GMT, john@www.cviog.uga.edu (John Taylor)
wrote:

>Mark Toomey (mark@kindred.fcs.uga.edu) wrote:
>: About a year ago, on atl.general I believe, was a thread about the best
>: small computer retailers around Atlanta. The thread spoke of FCS (First
>: Computer Systems) , on
>: Jimmy Carter Blvd. (where I bought my current 486) and another shop in 
>: Atlanta, whose name I can't recall.
>
>: The gist was that the FCS prices were not that great compared to this
>: other shop, & that the sales folks at FCS were not exactly customer-friendly
>: (which I can attest to :-) while the 'other' shop had great customer 
>: relations as well as great prices.
>
>: I'm looking at picking up a 166 or 200Mhz Pentium motherboard in the near
>: future (or Pentium Pro if the price is right) & was going to visit this
>: 'other' shop, if folks can point me to it??
>
>
>
>: -- 
>:   -----------------------------------------------------------------
>: Mark Toomey;mark@fcs.uga.edu;Family & Consumer Sciences;Athens,GA,USA
>: "Win95 - The Partially New 24 bit Couple-Threaded Operating System"
>:   -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Why drive so far?  You can get a really nice complete (quality) computer
>system here in town at a resonable price.  Best Buy (located on _the_
>Atlanta Highway) sells Packard Bell systems that they highly recommend.  It
>comes bundled with Windows 95 preinstalled, and lots of other top notch
>software.  The systems come Multimedia and Internet ready, too!  The phone
>number for the computer dept. is 354-8311, ext 44.
>
>
>--
>
>John Taylor
>john@www.cviog.uga.edu
>~*-,._.,-*~''~*-,._.,-*~''~*-,._.,-*~''~*-,._.,-*~''~*-,._.,-*~
>"This is Alonzo Jones.  I am on the phone or away from my desk, so please
>leave a message at the tone or press zero for an operator. Thank you."
>

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From: skpalpha@netime.com (Sandra Powell)
Subject: Re: Atlanta Computer Shops?
Date: 1996/06/25
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