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#9 GXI Card – Opinions!

    27-Nov-91 18:37:32
Fm: TOM TORRE 76150,2657
To: Tony Tanzillo [LISP TM] 71241,2067
Tony, Thanks for the quick reply…I had a good laugh when you mentioned the 3 ring binder…I got the same thing but it included 4 diskettes with it, Install, Power9, Windows and VGA driver disks. What level card did you get…I have the L25…The Power9 icons are pretty poorly illustrated either the README or Power9.Doc file…If you didn't get the disks, they you are in worse shape than I was…I was good and P_ssed off when I installed the card and I had to go from 16 bit mode to 8 because of a conflict with my SCSI drive. The onboard SVGA was crapping out so I installed a $79 CompuAdd VGA card with the loop-thru and my applications worked like they should have..I sent a nasty gram over their BBS and I got quick results…I spoke with the head of Marketing, their programming and Tech support manager on a conference call. After all was said and done, I am now a beta site for #9's next release of the Windows and Power9 DLP. Their response was good, only after I threatened them with sending the card back faster than I received it <G>. You can be sure that I gave it to them with both barrels…From lousy documentation in the famous 3 ring binder, slow DLP, no Windows zoom feature as they advertised but I had to praise them on their ICONS…it resembles MicroStation icons…If you saw the first Power9 DLP this is 1000% better. They did do some things right and have some fine tuning to do but I still want to see how it is against SPEA and Rasterex…They admitted being faster that SPEA and slower than Rasterex…But I'll give them some time…If you need a hand with the GXI, I can always stop by….Your only about 5 miles from me…or give me a call sometime @ 305-9556..Good talking to you again -Tom