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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:19:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Emplant Experience

Date sent: 22-NOV-1992

>Hello,
>
>I though I would share my experiences with the Emplant board.
>
>I receive it 10 days late.  When I opened it up, the metal bracket on the
>end of the card (the part that sticks on the outside of the computer), so
>I had to bend it straight.
>
>The documents (all 10 or so pages of it), is poor.  It looks like someone just
>photocopied it.
>
>I also ordered syble (SP?).  No documentation came with it.  All I got was on
>disk.  So I plugged it in the parallel and disk port.  Turned on my computer,
>zap, and then I could smell something burning.  I eventually found out that
>I should have plugged it into the parallel and serial ports.  Although
>this was my fault, there should have been some sort of warning paper stating
>that this device does not go into the disk port.
>
>I ran the emplant software an dc
>...                           could not get it to recognize the Amiga 3000's
>fast memory.  So I could not get it to work.
>
>
>BUT
>
>I called the company.  They were very friendly.  A lady said that in order
>to replace Syble, I just had to send it in and they will replace it for free.
>I talked to someone about emplant not working, and the guy said that they
>are working on a major revision, which should fix many bugs.  So in a few
>weeks everything should be fine.  So there is still hope.
>
>Currently Emplant does not support hard drives on the Mac side, the floppies
>can not be written to, and a couple of minor things.
>
>Interesting note:  On one side of the board, there is a saying that says
>something like:  Congratulations on purchasing Emplant.  Your Amiga can
>now have the capability of running many other computers.  Now aren't you glad
>you bought an Amiga.  This isn't the extact text.
>
>If anyone has any other questions about this product, I might be able to
>answer them.  Just ask!!!
>
>RJ
>
>Rick Johnson
>96942392@UWWVAX.UWW.EDU
>University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

This sounds exactly like the dealings I have had with UU in the past.  The
release a product before it is finished to generate revenues, and use that
money to fix it.  In the mean time the first time purchasers suffer; until they
fix all the bugs.  That's why when you see a new product from UU, IMHO, avoid
it until it has been out quite a while.  They are friendly, and do make good
products in the end, but initially I found the quality of new products for them
to be poor.  I though by now they would have stopped this practice.......
Well anyways... Hope this makes people consider waiting of buying the Emplant
until this major revision is accomplished.......

-Nyle

P.S. In the end I would imagine that Emplant will be a phenominal product.
Allowing full Macintrash compatibility and IBM 486 compatibility, but for now
well........

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|  Nyle F. Landas      |   LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA      |   SPOTVB::LANDAS88   |
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