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- From: ncpmont@angelo.amd.com (Mark Montgomery)
- Subject: Re: Texel 5024 Mini Review
- Message-ID: <C1Iu58.8zD@amd.com>
- Sender: usenet@amd.com (NetNews)
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
- References: <1k51roINNma1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:36:43 GMT
- Lines: 55
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- In article <1k51roINNma1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ar436@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis Mitsch) writes:
- >
- >Hi there, my name is Dennis Mitsch, I work for Texel in the
- >tech support department. Rick asked me to forward the
- >following to alt.cd-rom in response to Bill Williams various
- >concerns.
- >
- >================================================================
- >
- >To: All prospective customers of Texel on USENET
- >
- >My name is Rick Horwitz, I'm the Engineering Division Manager of
- >Texel. As my part of job, I am responsible for the Engineering
- >of new products, support of existing products and in my spare
- >time I devote to insure that everyone who owns a Texel product is
- >satisfied with their purchase.
- >
- >We seldom receive complaints about our CD-ROM Drive. When we do
- >get complaints we act aggressively to resolve them. We do
- >understand that our product is not perfect. However, we strive
- >for perfection wherever possible. We are sympathetic to those
- >who have compatibility problems.
- >
-
- I have deleted a long rebuttal by Rick Horwitz to some statements
- made by Bill Williams, some of which I consdered valid and some
- which were just plain obfuscatory.
-
- My bottom line is here's two good reasons NOT to buy Texel:
-
- 1. Their "long awaited" multisession upgrade is STILL just
- vaporware and we all know what 'real soon now' means. And
- how often does the first version work? And why the hell
- are they charging for it?
-
- 2. And I quote from the installation instructions for the
- latest OS/2 2.1b release under the section 'CD rom drives and
- SCSI adapters with special requirements':
-
- -Texel DM-3021, DM-5021
- IBM SCSI adapter: not supported
- IBM SCSI adapter w/ cache: not supported
- Future Domain TMC-700EX: not supported
-
- -Texel DM-3024, DM-5024
- IBM SCSI adapter: not supported
- IBM SCSI adapter w/ cache: not supported
- Future Domain TMC-1650, TMC-1660, TMC-1670,
- TMC-1680: not supported
-
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