From: Costas S. Iliopoulos (csi_at_dcs.kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 14 1997 - 16:00:50 EST
Hi there,
IBM UK is sending me a refund check for my comatose 365X (see below) and I am
thinking of buying a 760E. Two questions:
Do the 760Es really get very hot?
Will the memory of the 365X work in a 760E?
My 365X story:
1 October. I buy a 365X. The right arrow on the keyboard sticks. I FedEx
the machine to IBM Service. The 365X gets nicked while on transport.
Insurance claims, refunds etc
20 October. I buy a new 365X. I add 16MB of Memory. The bloody 365X refuses to
suspend/hybernate. I send it to IBM service. Ooops, the 365X gets roasted while
in service. Yeap , I get a refund.
1 November. I buy a new 365X. Yes, after a FABULOUS continuous 4
day work, the 365x says, I have an error 714, get me bloody
serviced. I send it to the IBM service. New motherboard. New Hard
drive.
16 November. The serviceperson drops my 365X and breaks into peices
like watermelon. Yeap, they give me a new machine.
3 December. The Hard drive spins endlessly. Service/new hard drive.
etc The new hard drive starts getting a new bad sector every minute.
Then, I say to IBM UK, give up fixing the bloody thing ...
and they are giving me my money back
My first 365X was a P100 (which became obsolete in the process), the
rest P120's (yes I used the latest bios). All the hard drives were
810MB and they only failed when I filled them near to capacity
(~750MB). Although, I always had the same model, no two 365X's were
100% identical, the keyboards varied, the plastic used varied, the
adaptors varied, the under the keyboard cover varied, the batteries
varied, ... All drivers/bioses installed were old or very old.
Overall I liked the 365Xs but they showed a clear addition to IBM
service depots.
The IBM UK (Glasgow) Software support is/was/will be a complete
joke,,, Don't bother to call them.
Cheers
Costas
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Costas S. Iliopoulos
Algorithm Design Group Tel: 44 (171) 873 2809
Dept of Computer Science Fax: 44 (171) 873 2851
King's College London Sec: 44 (171) 873 2588
Strand
England http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/csi
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