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Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands

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From: John Steczkowski
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 15:15
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In article <1592@starfish.Convergent.COM>, tims@starfish.Convergent.COM
(Tim Simmons) writes:
> 
> Of course you have the big name clones like Dell who mold their own
> plastics so that thier cases look different from MR. smalltime PC
> assembler on the corner.  Then the customer thinks "Wow they are a
> big company and thier box looks really cool, so I guess thier
> system must be worth $500 more than Mr. small time PC assembler"

Dell's Motherboard are of our own design and manufactured exclusively for
Dell PCs.  It is true that our peripherals are OEMed, but IBM even OEMs
a lot of their peripherals.

> >John Wright      //////////////////     Phone:  902-424-3805  or 
902-424-6527

John Steczkowski
Dell Unix Customer Support  P#: (512) 343-3571
9505 Arboretum Blvd.	    !s: uunet!dell!hotwheel!stecz
Austin, Texas 78759	    @s: stecz@hotwheel.dell.com



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From: stecz@hotwheel.dell.com (John Steczkowski)
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Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
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Date: 9 Mar 90 15:15:04 GMT
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