Post #13,825
10/17/01 4:35:52 PM
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OK, I've seen some cheap gear, but . .
. . this is a new one for me. An obviously "lowest price" computer with the manufacturer's sticker pasted inside saying:
"Assembled From Tested Components (Complete System Not Tested)"
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Post #13,851
10/17/01 6:48:49 PM
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Rofl
Didn't have "Compaq" on the other side of the label, did it?
(Can you tell I'm not enamoured of CPQ's current offerings?)
Peter
Shill For Hire
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #13,898
10/17/01 11:32:53 PM
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No, but where I differ with you . . .
. . is over the word "current". My dislike for Compaq equipment spans a much wider time, begining in 1984 (a disk controller with an interleave of 6? gimme a freak'n break!).
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Post #14,010
10/18/01 3:47:30 PM
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Fairy nuf...
...but they *do* make nice keyboards.
Almost as nice as IBM.
Peter
Shill For Hire
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #13,954
10/18/01 10:19:21 AM
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Heh
Sound like a high quality system there, though considering the way most of the systems I've bought actually worked out of the box I suspect they are just being more honest then most.
I once I had a sound card where the manuals cover page just said "sound card." Nothing else, nothing in the manual gave any clue as to which company was responsible for assembling the sound card, when it had been assembled or where it was assembled.
Jay
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Post #13,975
10/18/01 12:55:38 PM
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The reason for that . .
. . and the reason for there being no name on the card (sound cards and modems are the worst offenders) is that they are built for private branding. Sometimes the customer doesn't want to bother branding it so they just use the generic manual.
The only way to find the real manufacturer is through the FCC ID. There's a link on my [link|http://www.aaxnet.com/info/links.html|Links page].
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Post #14,061
10/18/01 8:18:28 PM
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Andrew, please update the IWeThey link to zIWeThey!
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Post #14,062
10/18/01 8:44:21 PM
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Once again...
Google is often your friend.
I usually take the largest chip on the card, look for something that looks like a part number, and stick it in there.
9 times out of 10, I get the manufacturer's page. ^_^
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #14,067
10/18/01 9:20:38 PM
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That gets you the chip makers site.
The chip makers don't make the boards, but they often post drivers that work with most (but not all) boards using their chips.
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Post #14,130
10/19/01 3:51:14 AM
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Typo re "Infoworld Electric"
disastrous not disasterous.
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Post #14,352
10/20/01 8:56:20 PM
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arguing with a white box vendor
who was supplying free PC's to the purchasing agents secretary. If the power supply is not UL approved it isnt coming in here. Had to actually spec the thickness of the case as the tissue paper they were using allowed thumbprints to be embedded in it. The reason that the vendor I wanted wasnt selected? I had done business for him before so conflict of interest. Yeh, right.
thanx,
bill
tshirt front "born to die before I get old"
thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
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Post #14,355
10/20/01 9:48:55 PM
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We don't see those out here much.
It's not illegal to sell a non-UL machine in California, but the will of the insurance companies is good enough that nobody's quibbling.
Many years ago the outfit I was buying power supplys from dropped the UL approved line. I dropped them like a hot potato. They tried for years to get my business back.
"Why you not buy from us?"
"You dropped UL approval, so I buy from this other guy now."
"But all our power supply UL approve now."
"Yes, but we only change vendors when we have a compelling reason. You gave us a compelling reason. This other guy hasen't, so we're staying with him until he does."
Thumb print steel I have seen. The very worst is thumb print steel with metric screws. Every time you work on one the screws all strip out. Fortunately the steel is so soft any American screw is a "self tapping" screw.
Everybody went to metric screws about 8 years ago, but all the good cabinet makers went back to American screws in a few months.
We use Super Power cabinets. They're stamped out of light gage boiler plate. You're thumb is going to hurt real bad if you try to print one.
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