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#Angry with 3DS/Autodesk

    21-Jun-94 21:44:18
Sb: #Angry with 3DS/Autodesk
Fm: Mike Butler 72662,1332
To: Evie LaHaie 73417,1701
To whom it may concern, I am getting very frustrated with Autodesk 3DS. After spending $2700 for the product and suffering thru a botched product delievry, I still can't get the product past the Sentinal message. First, the product arrived with NO HARDWARE LOCK AT ALL. And so, back to the dealer to get a lock…NOW after properly installing the lock and checking the port (by printing successfully to the port) I always get the Sentinal error message. I notice in the documentation that with fast machines (the docs mention 486/50 and 486/66) this locking method can have problems. Well I'm running a Pentium 66 and brother does this suck! All that power and no go!!! What should I do!! I've just spent $2700 for 3DS, $1600 for a Matrox Pro 4.5 ZV, $1200 for a Nokia 447x to run this software and I can't get past the darned timing issues you folks have with your locking approach. HHEELLP or this product goes back ASAP. mikey