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The poor quality of the documentation provided with the company's products was a source of frequent criticism. Of the Turbo 386, Satchell wrote that its manual was "lacking in several key areas. Both the wording and the diagrams are unclear, and a user could easily damage the system board by removing the 286 chip as directed in the manual".{{sfn|Satchell|1988|p=48}} Marks found an error in the same manual: a [[Jumper (computing)|jumper]] on the board was factory-set to "slow mode" as stated in the manual, underclocking the 386 to be later configured for "fast mode" in a program provided with the Turbo 386. However Marks discovered that the Turbo 386 only worked on his PC AT with jumper configured for "fast mode"—the AT displayed nothing when he first turned it on with the Turbo 386 configured to "slow mode", leading him to believe that he had destroyed his computer.{{sfn|Marks|1987|p=245}} When the company released a [[computer mouse|mouse]] in 1987, Christopher Barr of ''PC Magazine'' found that it only worked with [[Mouse Systems]] drivers not included with the mouse, a trait not mentioned in its manual.{{sfn|Barr|1987|p=122}}
The company declared bankruptcy in 1989, just four years after its
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