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Re: 486 CPU KOOLERS FOR SALE

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From: Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654...
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:23
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From article <1992Nov4.084645.16364@brtph560.bnr.ca>, by kimmyd@bnr.ca (Kimmy Posey P920):
> In article <1992Nov4.004352.15077@fasttech.com>, zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>>In <1992Nov02.215953.23041@kksys.com> gk@kksys.com (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
>> 
> 
> [ highly relevant facts deleted ] 
> 
>>>Two -- We have NEVER seen a system fail in service due to a processor chip
>>>failure.  This is despite having sold many many hundreds of systems.  Our
>>>customers are in general long term customers, and most of our business is
>>>repeat business, so we have the opportunity to track the history of the
>>>systems we have sold.  We also service a large number of systems sold by
>>>others, many with substandard cooling, and have never seen a failed cpu chip
>>>in them either.
> 
The above statement reminds me the following quotation:

"The difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is
that, the used card salesman knows how to drive a car and when he is
lying"

-Faruque
Email: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
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