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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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