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In article <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu>, dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.) writes:
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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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|>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:
|>
|>First, the technical sales line (800-DIGITAL) sometimes cannot even
|>tell me what parts I can use with my machine.
|>
|>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...
|>
|>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
|>
|>
|>
Gee... you seem bitter ;-)

-Larry.