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Posted by GMAN on 09/25/06 19:43
In article <4517cac9.135946656@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:13:59 GMT, glenzabr@nospam.xmission.com (GMAN)
>wrote:
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>>Did it say sony on the outter box?
>
>There was no outer box. OEM units come in plastic sacks.
>
Those drive are meant to be sold only as units for manufacturers like Dell,
and other local resellers to place into their prebuilt PC's for resell. It is
up to the small store or reseller you bought it from to provide support.
No manufacturer is going to provide support to you for a plastic bag bought
drive that was never meant to be sold to an end user that way.
>But it did say Sony on the unit itself. And the BIOS reported Sony.
>And Win2K reported Sony.
>
>There is no doubt that was a Sony unit. Yet Sony disowned it. They
>claimed because it was an OEM unit, they did not have any
>responsibility for it. In fact there wasn't even a model number for it
>anywhere on the Sony database.
>
>However once Sony put its name on it and especially once it programmed
>the firmware, it became a Sony branded unit, regardless of its OEM
>history.
>
>
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