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Article #890Re: Any experiences with PCUSA (Walnut, CA) ???
From: Scott Dexter
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:21
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) ??? Message-ID: <16900001@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com> Organization: HP Corvallis, Oregon Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hpcvmcdj!scottd Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc References: <1992Apr12.102940.2901@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Lines: 16