Re: Summary: Info on local PC dealers

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From: Warren D. Calhoun
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 09:20

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In <810@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> randy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (RANDALL SCHRICKEL ) writes:

>ACCEL (Alexandria)
>	Good prices. Bad power supply. Often doesn't boot immediately (must 
>reset several times).

We got 16 machines from ACCEL about two months ago.  So far, three have bad
1.2meg floppies, two are unable to recognize memory between 640k and 1meg,
the multiple reset problem is frequent (seems to have something to do with
loosing CMOS setup info), and at least five of the machines contained much
shareware/PD software which were infected by two different virii (Jerusalem
and 1193 [AKA Copyright]).  When ACCEL was contacted about the virii, they
responded with 'So...?'  I'm not impressed...

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