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From: ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net (Tom Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
Date: 16 Feb 1995 22:43:35 -0500
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
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Message-ID: <3i1617$929@mercury.interpath.net>
References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3heor3$cs2@mercury.interpath.net> <3hgl1n$6i1@mirage.skypoint.com> <3ho9kd$9ii@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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In article <3ho9kd$9ii@hpscit.sc.hp.com>,
Danny Low <dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com> wrote:
:Mark Holden (vector@skypoint.com) wrote:
[...]
:
:This is not quite correct. HP has a division (Disk Memory Division) that 
:makes disk drives. HP also has many divisions that use disk drives 
:in their products. The HP divisional structure means DMD
:must compete with external drive makers such Seagate and IBM for
:the business of the HP divisions that use disk drives. So that is
:why when you buy a drive from HP intended for a HP computer system, 
:you SOMETIMES get a Seagate or IBM drives rather than HP drives. 

HP will also sell workstations with other than HP drives.  My current
workstation (my old workstation had CDC's) arrived with a pair of Quantums.  
Our techies prefer to replace them with HP drives...they say they last 
quite a bit longer.

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|  Tom Wilson                       |  "I can't complain, but sometimes  |
|  ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net   |   I still do."                     |
|                                   |                -Joe Walsh          |