I hate Compaq

[Slackmaster2K]

Yet another Compaq dig.

Of all the machines I have running here the HP, PB, and Compaq are the worst.

A few weeks ago the Compaq started freaking out...trying to open word documents over the network resulted in "The file appears to be corrupted." Well, the files aren't corrupted. So I reinstalled networking. Fixed.

Now today it has crashed on the gal 6 times when using network applications. Looks like I get to start over from scratch which sucks because Win98 setup pukes like a dog on this machine and I have to do most of the shit manually.

Damn it...somebody at compaq should go to jail.

Oh, and the PB machine is really acting up too. It's only a P150 w/32 MB but it runs at HALF the speed of our other lower end systems on heavy loads. And of course it has a fresh install of 95 OSR/2 but that don't help. What a joke. Somebody at PB should go to jail and get screwed up the yin yang by his compaq cellmate.

Slackmaster 2000

 

[drstawl]

Slack- Although I no longer have to suffer the pain of working on a PB, this machine was the first one that I ever had to work with that was provided by my current employer. Before that it was strictly pen and paper. A P133 w/16MB RAM and a 1.2GB HD. As long as you didn't ask much of it, it did OK. The monitor was so washed out you could get a serious headache trying to read anything on that 14" piece of garbage. When the HD died (just out of warranty) the power cable had to be remachined (a cave-man machining job for sure; we basically forced it on) to fit into the WD 2.0 GB replacement. What really sticks in my mind was the place I bought it. One of these little slam a bunch of cheap systems together and blow then out the door outfits. Only one person at their store could speak English. I noticed that the keyboard, the mouse, the case and the monitor all bore the trademark of Packard-Bell. When I asked the guy, "Is this a Packard-Bell PC?" he told me, "Oh- no. We just buy a lot of components on consignment and assemble what we can from the parts." Turns out the guts inside the case were also of the PB persuasion. In other words, a PB PC without even a hint of PB support. One step below PB. It's still in use at my company- just not in <my> office.

 

[duck]

Hear Hear:

A few years ago I worked for a company called alpha omega. They had 2 pb, 1 compaq, and 9 gateways. Guess which ones needed the work. My not too bright daughter bought a 166mhz pb even after I told her not to. My gateway 75 is about 10 times faster. I had only 1 problem with 1 gateway which ended up being a MB. That fixed my video problem.
Too much propware with compaq. I even had dennis miller on it when I booted it Up telling me how to run the damm thing.
Dennis Miller! Dennis Miller!! Bad enough tha he wastes a time slot on HBO, let alone him telling me how to run a computer. What a joke! Then theres pb with their hardware comming out the back door of Ching Chang Chows. Shows you what good marketing and taking advantage of Ignorant consumers can do for you. Your right Slackmaster there should be a law.

From now on its a Lotus server with Novell
power notes for me.!!!

Duckhead