bamford@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford) (02/18/88)
I have just received a sales brochure from a company called Objective Programming Incorporated. They are trying to sell me two products, Accuclock and Objective Utilities which are for use on the Unix PC. The utilities package includes some programs for locating bad blocks on a disk and assigning them to a file which is then never used. This utility is one that I have an immediate need for as I am getting reports of bad blocks on a daily basis. My question is: Has anybody had experience with these people? Are the products reliable? I don't want to buy this product if it is a dud or a trojan, but I DO need a program as they have described. Comments? Harold Bamford -- Harold Bamford, AT&T Bell Labs IHP 2F-524 (312) 416-7397 ihnp4!ihlpg!bamford
mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard) (02/21/88)
In article <4849@ihlpg.ATT.COM> bamford@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford) writes: > >I have just received a sales brochure from a company called Objective >Programming Incorporated. They are trying to sell me two products, >Accuclock and Objective Utilities which are for use on the Unix PC. I have has some dealings with Objective, they are going to send me their software to review and then post on the net. I dont think that this will be until next month. So far I am impressed with them. The owner, David Solan, seems to be pretty straight forward. I have purchased several products (att) from them and found their delivery to be fast. -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: {mhuxu,u1100a}-----\ Mark Hilliard seismo!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!mark N2HHR {ethos,fthood}-----/
Kdavid@gizzmo.UUCP (David Solan) (03/28/89)
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Some time ago on USENET it was mentioned that the inaccuracy of the
real time clock on the UNIX PC is annoying. Objective Programming has
a product, ACCUCLOCK (TM), Copyright (C) 1989 Objective Programming
Incorporated, All Rights Reserved, to keep the accuracy of your time
on the UNIX PC to within a fews seconds per YEAR. More recently,
someone on USENET wanted to know if there was a program to map a given
block number to a file. Our other proprietary software product for
the UNIX PX PC is Objective Utilities (TM), Copyright (C) 1989 Objective
Programming Incorporated, All Rights Reserved, which performs this
task and MUCH more (including turning off the blinking cursor).
While I am at it, let me reintroduce ourselves: we are an AT&T Value
Added Reseller (VAR) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and still
support the AT&T UNIX PC. We actually have much of the entire
hardware line for the UNIX PC (and some system software as well),
including the machine itself, for sale. In particular, we still stock
the Voice Power Board for this machine (with the 3 month AT&T
warranty).
If anyone on USENET wishes more information on any of our products,
please send your FULL and EXACT USPS ADDRESS to the address below and
brochures will be in the mail. You could also contact me by voice
phone, as listed below, at any reasonable time, weekends included.
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David Solan
Objective Programming Incorporated
Post Office Box 123
Norwalk, CT 06856
Voice: (203) 866-6900
attmail: <!dsolan> or <attmail!objctv!kdavid>
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