silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (09/16/90)
To my great astonishment PC-Ditto II finally showed up a couple of days
ago. I had ordered the original upgrade -- how many years ago was that?
and early in 1989 I bought a DOS laptop since it was clear that AG
wasn't going to ship. Letters requesting a refund were ignored.
Finally it showed up. The board looks used -- the backing is already
stuck on and the coprocessor jumper is in place. It took me days to get
it working, since those bloody pins are hard to squeeze, but it seems to
run OK. To my great surprise all kinds of programs, like WP, WS, QB,
and 123 run on my ancient 520, even though PCD reports only 384 K free.
Alas, by the time I got the pins tight enough to make contact, I seem to
have introduced a jiggle to the screen (both in ST mode and in DOS).
I don't know anything about the innards -- this is the first time I have
opened up the machine -- and if anyone has an idea on how to get rid of
the jiggle, it would be appreciated. Judging by recent postings,
further attempts to contact AG would be a waste of time.
--
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577
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