CompuServe Messages

Yes, Mike, you're right, the Amiga is more affected by a bad switch-box and the problems are less on the PC. Though, the difference is only minor and the same problems do exist on the PC (I can back this up with masses of PC user phone calls to hotlines of manufacturers I deal with – it's a known problem and most users do not consider any cable problems if one printer driver fails and another works… strangly, it can be a cable problem 🙁 and convincing users to really get a good (not expensive!) cable is sometimes a real pain. As said before, the problem can be solved by several electronic switch boxes that do amplify the signal (as said, I highly recommend the arXon switch box as it has proofen to work with lot's of stuff like digitizers, scanners and printers). While box comes with Amiga software, you can also use it for your PC and the price of the box is compareable to other electronic switch boxes. Beside: I called arXon 2 weeks ago and had a chat with the guy doing the arXon software (Waldemar Adams). In the past they had great problems with delivering the switch-box because of the low quantaty of the production wich was very time consuming and thus expensive. The main reason the box was not available from other dealers was the low quantaty of the production. On the other side the requests were not high enough to do larger batches. They now have a SMD version of the box and they are now able to deliver larger quantaties so I'm sure the box will become more attractiv as it comes available. They are also thinking about doing new software (wich I think is not necessary as the old software is totaly ok… but well, you can allways do better). — Wolf Faust, Am Dorfgarten 10, 60435 Frankfurt, Germany —