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Article #11632Re: Zenon Computers
From: Michael Hemy
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:53
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:53
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In article <1ihof4INNlmu@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott) writes: Does anyone know anything about this company and their service. I recently looked over one of their adds, and they have some of the least expensive 486 VLB systems I have ever seen. They appear to be made with quality components from the adds, and their warranty coverage is quite good too. If anyone has dealt with them, please e-mail me or post a response. (Good and bad inquires accepted). Thanks! I have ordered a computer from Zenon about a month ago. Their price was the lowest around for a VLB machine. They use good components as a general rule but you have to make sure that the other things are also good. So far their service has been O.K, yet it is not the greatest and sometimes I feel I have to force them to take the right corrective action. For example they sent me a mouse which was a very-low quality. They told me they would replace it with another brand and they ended up shipping me another-of-the-same. Now I am for a-really-another-one; The mid-tower case was low-quality: the drive bays were disabling the use of one of the ISA slots, the driver cable was too short and the FAN was noisy: I ended up upgrading to the Tower case. Oh ya and when you call to ask if they shipped they say "Yes" and later you find out that they didn't. But I guess everybody is doing that. Their tech-support is Toll-Free and that's good because sometimes it is really dificult to understand these guys (I think they are mostly asian), but I must say that they are trying to do their best. I am still testing the system (486 DX2-66). I will be loading it with OS-2 and linux in the next weeks. If people are interested in performance issues or any other things related to that system, I will post.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!mhemy From: mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Hemy) Subject: Re: Zenon Computers In-Reply-To: schottd@ucs.orst.edu's message of 7 Jan 1993 17:15:16 GMT Message-ID: <C0I4pB.7H9.1@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: n2.sp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <1ihof4INNlmu@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:53:30 GMT Lines: 40