rgg@aplvax.UUCP (04/27/84)
My AST Six-Pack Plus has worked perfectly since I took it out of the box and slipped it into my PC four months ago. I know of several other people who have had similar good experiences with AST boards. Their software and documentation are quite good. Thankfully, I have no experience with their customer service department. (You know a product is good when you can't comment on customer service!) I waited for a while to buy one of the new 384K Quadram boards, but got disgusted after I found they were advertising the product long before it was actually available. Considering I bought my AST board for $259 (including 64KB ram), I am very satisfied. Make this one vote for AST. -- Richard Greenberg ...decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!rgg ...rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!rgg
ctk@ecsvax.UUCP (04/28/84)
I have a mega-plusII card from AST. Aside from the silly name I like it. No trouble at all.
gary@mit-eddie.UUCP (Gary Samad) (04/29/84)
Add another vote for AST. My AST board has been running flawlessly now for a year. Good price, too. Gary Samad
geller@rlgvax.UUCP (David Geller) (04/30/84)
I've had a six-pak plus for six month now. The board has
worked perfectly from day one. The documentation is superb.
David P. Geller
Computer Consoles, Inc.
{seismo}!rlgvax!geller Office Systems Group
11490 Commerce Park Drive
Reston, VA 22091
703-648-3483bcw@duke.UUCP (Bruce C. Wright) (05/03/84)
I have an AST board which has caused no problems (it's one of the 6-pack boards). The only gripe I have is that there seem to be some problems with the spooler software which comes with it - it does work **much, much** faster than the DOS 2.0 print spooler - when it works!! Often if you do anything (it can be as innocuous as a DIR) while the spooler is reading anything from disk, the system gets wedged somehow and must be rebooted by turning the machine off (CTL-ALT-DEL doesn't work). Ugh. I've tried several combinations but none seem to work, so I gave up on it since I don't have time at the moment to figure out if it's DOS, the spooler, or me which is causing the problem. Ran on a bit about the spooler problem, it's not really causing any trouble (now that we're not using it), the rest of the product (hardware & software) seem to work great. Bruce C. Wright