Kayaks! +100 
I also had the pleasure of having to support SGI 320 and 540 Visual 
workstations. 
What a disaster they were. SGI built them for windows 2k only to get delayed 
(by MS) and they had to hack up drivers for NT to run them. 
We had so many issues,(everything in them was priority except the hard drive, 
and cd-rom) in the end SGI literally sent us 20 of each to keep on the shelf 
for parts at no cost, then the next week pretty much closed that whole line 
down. 
I still have one 540 setup at new %work% as a conversation piece.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mathew Shember [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: HP going out

Oh gateway  *censored, censored, censored*

I remember that endless loop as well.

Then they company decided on HP Kayaks.    Now that was an adventure in 
installation..........



-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: HP going out

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, C.E. Gene Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will the new buyer have to stand behind what we are now getting from HP ??

  I think that will depend on how things go down.  One hopes HP will want their 
customers taken care of.

  Before I started at %WORK%, they were buying Gateway PCs.  I put a stop to 
that as soon as I could, but there were plenty around I still had to support.  
Then Gateway sold their business PC division to MPC.
The warranties and support contracts basically evaporated.  MPC said call 
Gateway, Gateway said call MPC, I got nothing.

  Shockingly, that division soon went out of business.  It's almost like their 
customers didn't trust them anymore.  Whodathunkit?

-- Ben

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