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- From: sveini@mack.uit.no (Svein-Ivar Lillehaug)
- Subject: Re: MicroSolutions Backpack 60/120 and OS/2
- Keywords: "Control program" needed
- References: <1992Nov11.095911.29537@news.uit.no> <1992Nov14.001323.382@midway.uchicago.edu> <1e45jmINN1ep@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- Sender: news@news.uit.no (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Tromsoe
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:28:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.092802.21577@news.uit.no>
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- In article <1e45jmINN1ep@crcnis1.unl.edu> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
- >sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov11.095911.29537@news.uit.no> sveini@mack.uit.no (Svein-Ivar Lillehaug) writes:
- >>>I miss the possibility to run this streamer under OS/2 (connected to
- >>>the parallel port). Does anybody out there have - or know where to
- >>>find the control program for the streamer under OS/2?
- >
- >>I haven't seen one off hand. Obviously the first course of action is
- >>to badger (politely) the manufacturer.
- >
- >I tried.. They weren't interested in OS/2. I also mentioned that I had one of
- >their "compaticard"s and would probably not be buying any of their other
- >products unless they supported OS/2.
- >
- >PS. I was polite in my requests. MicroSolutions is a very small privately held
- >company whose 2 owners work "upstairs" in the place, and at one point had
- >considered writing OS/2 drivers, and then decided against it. This info is what
- >I was told on the phone last week when I called and asked about OS/2 drivers
- >for both a Backpack tape (for work) and a Compaticard (for home).
-
- Could you put MicroSolutions phone# out here in News? Maybe something
- will happen if people from all over the world start asking (politely)
- for OS/2 drivers for their products. So, phone- and fax# please....
-
- //Svein-Ivar
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