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Re: Gateway 66V

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From: Charles Shopsis
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:10
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In article <21577@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad) writes:

>I just bought a Gateway/66V a few weeks ago and it has just been incompability
>after incompatibility with some software(Brief,QEMM) and hardware. Has anyone
>else had a similar experience with Gateway localbus systems. And their ALWAYS
>BUSY(non-support)tech support line isn't of any help. The line from Gateway is
>that this is new, and these problems are to be expected.  

>And if anyone is expecting responsive and timely service from Gateway, you will
>be highly disappointed. I wonder how they got their service awards??? 
>If they say they are understaffed, then make the tech support available 24 hr
> and 7 days a week. Maybe another reason their tech lines are swarmed, could be
>because SO MANY PEOPLE are having problems with their systems.

>Does anyone know if the localbus problems exists for other brands as well?

I've had no problem with QEMM (or anything else) on my GW2000 66V.  I 
worried a bit about Adobe Type Manager v. 2.5, but it seems fine too.  Which 
version of QEMM did you use?  Mine is 6.02.  What sort of problems did you 
have?
Charles Shopsis   shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu
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