| From: | Patrice Champarou |
| Date: | 27 Aug 2001 at 20:39:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Digest Number 1891, already? |
Hi Jon'
Took me some time to decide if I replied or not... I will, now that I've
cooled down a little ( phew! stifling weather here... and I must warn
you I'm in a depressive state just in case... ;)
On 25-Aug-01, you wrote:
> Jon. Fed up with all the Elbox bashing.
You have a right to feel that way... and some of us may have a right
to be fed up with the current fashion that bans any criticism and even
questions which might offend "them" - I mean companies, not the people
who designed the products, of course! See the difference? If you can't,
get yourself an old 1.x kickstart disk and read inside, old Amigans will
understand and once;)
Now the thing is your opinion - even respectable - doesn't entitle you
to cheat with quotations :
>>> Mine wasn't supplied with any software as far as I can remember
Please count chevrons or read the mail properly : I never wrote that,
Gaz did. I BOUGHT the Elbox interface from Power ( order 1191377 taken
by Sam, eh! ;))) it came with a floppy and what you call a "manual" ( well...
a single-sheet printout that repeats part of the docs ) .
As you said, the prefs prog sends a humorous message everytime you
try to use it : " your drives could work much faster, you need PowerFlyer
Fast-AT/EIDE Controller!" ( ahem! £50 for a "better" software, why should
I trust them after such a "friendly" welcome? ;)
Sorry, I'm used to "thank you for purchasing...", this is the first one I've
seen which shouts "hey, sucker, I'm obsolete, why do you even try to
use me!?" - with very clear and readable fonts, whereas the rest is
completely scrambled if you use anything else than topaz-8. Boot from
your HD it says, and then hangs up half of the time - which is apparently
the best thing it can do if you don't want to lose all your data ;)
Maybe young tecchy folks have a new ethic that forces them to respect
and support all profit-makers in case their talents might be hired some
day - just a generalisation, Jon, I don't know who you are and never care
about who's who on a list, assuming we're equal as far as discussion is
concerned - but we oldsters keep a different sense of politeness that
includes a little respect for customers, and insists on promises to be
held - not withdrawn by casuistic arguments as they were for the Mediator,
but that's another story... ;)
Anyway I'm glad EIDE works for you, I suppose it does as long as one
installs it once and for all and never adds anything to his system...
please don't give me any temptation to try again, I've only got one life
( most of it already behind, but still looking forward, eh Neil? ;)
Cheers,
Patrice - Oh, what a pointless chatterbox! But I don't post often ;)))
P.S. and I'll state being French as another excuse, will AA ever be
available in this Amiga-forgotten country? ;)
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