What we go through to keep 'em flying! I just responded to a friend, off
forum, concerning the computer industry in general. Only bought one "canned"
computer. Always built mine from parts I belive are best.

My biggest gripe, even beyond Microsoft, is/was the damn cases and the fact
you cannot avoiding cutting your hands on the sheetmetal. Yeh, I know - what
a wimp! The newer ATX types now have roled and smoothed edges so it's not as
much a problem as a few years ago. That's really minor compared to the fact
there are no less than 5 different screw sizes used to build any system.
Talk about a quality problem. No let's don't.

The following is what I sent off line:

You said a mouthful Steve. Hate those canned computers as well. Build my own
but always running into some kind of trouble so I keep two that are
identical. No matter, I have two identical hard drives in each one so I can
do a drive copy one to the other about once a month. I'm my customer service
and do I get pissed at me from time to time.

Got two newer idiot boxes now with Maxtor hard drives. I know, that's nuts
but couldn't get my favorite IBMers when I built them. Only good thing about
Maxtor is their return policy. There isn't one. Just send in the old and get
the next bad one sent almost immediately. To think I designed some of their
crap a few years back when a 540 mb type cost 900 dollars. Oh yes, now I
remember why quality often suffers - low cost not quality driven stuff but
it still works pretty well.

MoonMan

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