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Ah, PC nostalgia. I remember calling the Gateway support line for my employer's PCs (386/486 mix) and entering the hold queue....for 2 days. We left the speaker phone on and muted just to see how long it would take them to answer.

If Ted Waitt is charismatic, I'm Clint Eastwood. He is and has always been annoying. The cutesy commercials did nothing to dissuade me.

I don't know if people remember the PC market in the mid 90s. Compaq & IBM were ungodly expensive and Dell wasn't really a player yet. HP had some spotty offerings. Gateway was knocking them dead but became a victim of their own success in some ways.
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Right on, comrade!  baggins_z | 02/09/06
The bourgeoisie and the proletariat...  Anton Philidor | 02/09/06
No surprise  RCDSOnline | 02/09/06
About Time  HoggRider | 02/09/06
Your loyalty must have been tested often...  relictele | 02/09/06
Gateway Personal Computers  doclark | 02/09/06
PRODUCT RETAIL STORES  CHOP440 | 02/09/06
Poor Emachines  elliottxp | 02/09/06
I agree  ckswank@... | 02/09/06
No vision and poor execution.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/09/06
E-Machines lack of customer service  mkalinsky | 02/09/06
Their tech support might be inept but ...  ShadeTree | 02/09/06
Really??  BlackDiamond | 02/09/06
eMachines, the real story  whiskeyfather | 02/13/06
Lucky????  sth@... | 02/09/06
Recipe for disaster  jighead | 02/09/06
There should be no gateway  gsy4u@... | 02/09/06
Happy and sad  Pentaras | 02/09/06
Corporate Office  gsolo5150@... | 02/09/06
Gateway's Finished  mrcool46 | 02/09/06
Gateway's real business...  Oxmyx | 02/09/06
Re: Gateway's real business....  Paco20 | 02/09/06
Adn you try top spend the most I suppose?  Terfenol_D | 02/10/06
Re: And you try to spend the most I suppose?  Paco20 | 02/10/06
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