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Re: Thinking of buying a 5300 greyscale

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From: Craig Nelson
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <19960621100205349115@ctsasync65.cc.utah.edu>,
aon8871@u.cc.utah.edu (Abel O. Nelson) wrote:

> Anthony Chan <af_chan@postoffice.utas.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking of buying a 5300mono.  (most likely with 24Mb of RAM).
> > 
> > Australian price would be about $3500.
> > 
> > I'ld like to hear peoples opinion on this machine and if they think it's a
> > good buy.  I'm esp. concerned with all the negative press (rightly so from
> > what I've heard) about the 5300 line.
> > 
> > Does it work well for you?  What do you use it for?  (I plan to mainly do
> > word processing and play some games, maybe attached to an external colour
> > monitor).
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Anthony
> 
The only people posting are those with troubles. I got my 5300c before
they hit the standard retail market over a year ago, and have not had one
single problem with it (in fact, my 9500 desktop has given me far more
problems until I got a massive amount of RAM and dropped Ram Dbler). You
do need to get 7.5.3 rev 2 as well as the speed doubler package to be
really happy, but then you'll love this machine.
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From: chelseamen@worldnet.att.net (Craig Nelson)
Subject: Re: Thinking of buying a 5300 greyscale
Date: 1996/06/21
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