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Article #12286Re: Not a Fry's horror story, but an NCA!
From: Andrew Laurence
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
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steiner@best.com (Michelle Anne Steiner) writes: >In Article <1995Apr30.081612.10883@ravel.okay.com>, duncan@ravel.okay.com >(Jim Duncan) wrote: >>In article <3nprsf$itk@nic-nac.csu.net>, >>Leo Divinagracia III <ldivinag@s1.csuhayward.edu> wrote: >>> >>>since i can't do much about it, i said go ahead and now i'm waiting for >>>my money back. so do i win anything? >>> >>You can't just casually buy cheap modems anywhere, including, I guess, >>NCA. Unless a friend or other knowledgeable person has recommended >>it, a $99 28.8 modem is almost guaranteed to be a POS at this point >>in time. I've given up buying bottom line modems; it's not worth >>the initial troubles, nor the later surprise conflicts and flakiness >>that surface. The only cheap brand that seems to have proven itself >>OK is Zoltrix, which I understand is also carried at NCA (roughly >>$135 for 28.8 - v.34?). >What is NCA's address? They have several locations, but their "main" store appears to be the Sunnyvale location, near the corner of Lawrence Expressway and Kifer. The phone number is (408) 739-8010. Their other locations are in South San Jose, Fremont, and Palo Alto. -- |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Andrew Laurence laurence@netcom.com | | Certified NetWare Engineer (CNE) Oakland, California, USA | | Independent Networking Consultant Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106595,ea037fbee1e10321 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public From: laurence@netcom.com (Andrew Laurence) Subject: Re: Not a Fry's horror story, but an NCA! Date: 1995/05/04 Message-ID: <laurenceD82oA6.GIF@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 102035770 sender: laurence@netcom5.netcom.com references: <3nprsf$itk@nic-nac.csu.net> <1995Apr30.081612.10883@ravel.okay.com> <steiner.1149956239G@news.best.com> organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: ba.consumers