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Re: Any experiences with PCUSA (Walnut, CA) ???

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From: Scott Dexter
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:21
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I recently bought a 386-40 from PCUSA mid tower case 2- 3 1/2 drives and 1 5 1/4
drive and a Quantum 240 meg HD.  The unit came on time and the set up was easy.
I had a intermittant problem with the disk drives.  Because I have 3 floppies
they used a seperate controller ( 8 bit) for the floppies.  I talked with their
tech support a couple of times and they suggested a few things to try.  The long
and short of it is I sent the floppy controller back and they replaced it.  I ran
two of the floppies from the IDE controller which works fine.  I reinstalled the
floppy controller and it works but is quite a bit slower than the 16 bit IDE/floppy
controller.  So I am somewhat pleased with their tech support but not with their
choice of controllers.  I am very pleased with the rest of the system.  The IDI monitor
is good and the Quantum HD is fantastic.  Also they want you to call them when you 
make changes to the system ie add new cards to keep the two year warranty in effect.
Since its toll free no sweat.  The system came set up with windows installed but they
used the default VGA driver instead of the Diamond Speedstar custom driver but that was
easily fixed.
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From: scottd@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Scott Dexter)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:21:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Any experiences with PCUSA (Walnut, CA) ???
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Organization: HP Corvallis, Oregon
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