Re: Dells, Gateways, Compaqs or Microns?

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:25:08 EDT

At 7:04 PM 7/21/96, Keith Amano wrote:
>Any schools using DELLS GATEWAYS cOMPAQS or MICRONS? I'm trying to get
>away from paying a premium on IBMS. However, I want to make sure they are
>reliable and so proprietary that upgrades and repairs get ridiculous.

We have quite a few Micron systems (surprise, we're in Boise and so is
Micron...). My main complaint with them is that the power supplies aren't
worth the powder to blow them up (which several of them did to themselves
during the big power crash out here).

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Boise State University, Boise, ID  83725              (208)385-1856@fax
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