Re: Late Reply #1

[Harry Binswanger]

  Jordan:
  Yeah, you never know. My first computer was a NorthStar Horizon (1980). The
company was renowned for reliability, yet my system had intermittent terrible
and unfixable errors all its life (I loved it just the same!). Next system was
no-name via mail. System was fine, but the hard drive died twice (had to be
replaced twice) under warranty; the company did come thru--they did replace it
twice. The third time (after about a total of 5 years) I bought my own Seagate
and that's been fine.
  A friend bought an Ares 486/66 a couple of months ago; he told me that Ares
uses gold edge connectors and great soldering etc. His system was also DOA --
same story as your friend. Had to swap the whole thing in the end.
  So I guess that talks me into buying from a local assembler, to whom I can
hand return it!
  I don't believe the Pentium bug is anything to worry about. In fact, I
regard it as a buying opportunity. You can test for the bug   by giving it a
specific arithmetic problem of the form A/B*B to see if the answer is A. It
was written up in the NY Times. You need to know the specific values of A and B
to use, however, and I don't have that info here. Let me know if you want it.
  Regards,
  Harry