kimes@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) (07/27/89)
The following message that appeared on GEnie and was reprinted in
the latest Zmagazine (#166) is primarily for any of you that had
the cartridge preordered. However, the information is interesting
to anyone that is thinking of getting a terminal program on
cartridge. It's good to know it is finally shipping.
Kit Kimes
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, IL
...!att!ihlpe!kimes
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Orion Microsystems has been shipping Express! cartridges and
Keith Ledbetter made the following statement Monday in GEnie's 8-bit
Bulletin Board:
"We forgot to include a cover letter with the Express! Carts that we
have shipped out so far, so I'm going to post it here. If you could,
I'd appreciate it if you'd pass this information on to any users on
your BBSes (you can just capture this message if you'd like).
"The only cartridges that we have shipped so far have been
pre-orders--we are going to use the people who pre-ordered the
cartridge as extended BETA testers. We are not shipping any
more cartridges until the pre-order users have used the cart
for at least 3 weeks. We will then make any bug fixes that have
been found, and upgrade those pre-order people to version 1.1 of
the cartridge.
"So, it is VERY important that you call Chris at our voice number if
you think you have found a bug--if you don't call, we won't know
about it! So far, the only problems have been found in the
80-column screen handler. Version 1.1 will greatly clean up the
80-column display.
Take care,
Keith