From: whiles@nswc.navy.mil (William Scott Hiles x1568)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Has anyone run OS2 on loadstar, insight, or fastdata
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:19:46 GMT
Reply-To: whiles@nswc.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

I am looking into buying a 486DX33 from either loadstar, insight, or
fastdata.  After calling each of the vendors I did not get a convencing
feeling that OS2 would run on these computers.  

If anyone has comments on these computers (or other computers) I would
appreciate your comments.

Additionally, if anyone is interested in this, I would like to propose
the creation of a statistics sheet which would list the following
information for computers running OS2:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| vendor name | phone number | video | hard drive | cdrom | rating (1-4) | buy again |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Joes Comp.   |800-joe-comp  |tsing  |Adaptek SCSI|none   |0 - 000       | yes: 000  |
|             |              |SVGA   |            |       |1 - 000       | no:  000  |
|             |              |       |            |       |2 - 000       |           |
|             |              |       |            |       |3 - 000       |           |
|             |              |       |            |       |4 - 000       |           |
|             |              |       |            |       |no OS2 - 000  |           |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The vendor name, phone number, video, hard drive, and cdrom is self explanatory.
The ratings would be "0: video incompatibilities", "1: drive/controller 
incompatibilities", "2: cdrom incompatibilities", "3: system incompatibilities",
"4: no problems at all", "no OS2:  will not run OS2 at all".  These ratings would
indicate the number of people with this configuration who have had problems or 
are otherwise satisfied.  The final catagory lists the number of people who 
would or would not buy this system again.

I realize that there is a list of computers that has been tested with OS2, but
I also realize that a number of people have computers which are not on that list
which do run OS2.  It is anticipated that this table would be long, but it would
provide a good basis for potential OS2 users and new buyers to avoid problems. 
The idea for this list came from a similar table for video equipment on another
news group.

If there is sufficient response for a reasonable sampling of computers to be
created, I will post an updated table each month to this group.

If you are interested in participating please send an email message to
whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil with the information contained in the table.
If you have additional comments about the computer or your experience 
send that along too and it will be posted at the end of the table.

If something similar to this already exists, please post a message so that 
I can withdraw this table.

---
Scott Hiles
whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil

Standard disclaimer:
  The opinions expressed are those of my own and do not necessarily 
  reflect those of the DOD or the Navy.  I accept full responsibility.