🚀 go-pugleaf

Just a warning, buyer beware.

My 79 yr grandfather decides he wants to learn about computers and wants
a cheap machine to learn on.  After discussing with various people, we
decided to get a 386sx33.  We ordered it from Dee One Systems in California
based on a reasonably low price in Computer Shopper.

I should also state we ordered it without software.  When it arrived, we
booted it up off the hard disk.  I was a little surprised at first, because
it didn't boot off the MSDOS floppy in the A drive.  Since it came up on
the C drive, I looked and found command.com, fdisk.com and format.com on
the hard disk, but nothing else.  When I tried to install DOS from the 
floppy, no lights, nothing and a drive failure.  After trying to contact
them for over an hour, I opened the case.  Low and behold, they never
connected the ribbon cable from the floppy to the HD controller.

Says a lot for their quality control........

On the flip side, we ordered it with a .39 DP monitor, and the manual for
the one we received says it's a .28........ Go figure...

Ted

The first rule of diving:    Take only pictures, leave only bubbles.

Ted Falk, aka "Land Shark"   (candygram.....),    Bellcore, Piscataway NJ.