#9 GXI Card – Opinions!
27-Nov-91 18:37:32
Sb: #22199-#9 GXI Card – Opinions!
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