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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: My experiences with PC-Ditto II
Message-ID: <1990Apr9.125813.635@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 9 Apr 90 12:58:13 GMT
Organization: UTCS Public Access
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After some fanangling I have PC-DITTO working.  There is still the odd
glitch, but overall I am pleased with it.

THE SETUP:

  1040ST (circa 1987) with no mods + mono monitor.

When I first installed PC-DITTO it complained a lot about things not
being setup up correctly.  This turned out to be the now infamous
connector which clips onto the CPU.  You have to bend in all the pins
to give it a snug fit.  I also ran into the PAL problem which
Avant-Garde fixed quickly with a couple of new PAL's.

This weekend I was reviewing IBM's Current and Richmond Technologies'
Maximizer for a Canadian rag, both of which ran without a hitch.
Current is painful to use not because of speed but rather because of
PC-DITTO's limitation to CGA video.  I hope they can come out with at
least an EGA version quickly.  I also run Harvard Project Manager
regularly on PC-DITTO.  Text based applications should not have too
many problems.  I also had to use Procomm to do a dial out session
(which was torturous hell after having used Uniterm for so many
years).

This weekend I happened to notice a new phenomenon:  During the first 15
minutes of use I can sometimes hang PC-DITTO.  I suspect that this has to
do with the connector/cpu heating up and expanding.  I am not thrilled
about this precarious set up, but I am also not keen on soldering the
connector on.  Any suggestions on how to fix this would be
appreciated.

Oh and another thing I would advise you not to try to stuff everything
back into your case.  I did (minus the RF shield) and ended up putting
a crack in my keyboard PC board.  Thanks to Peter Hiscocks for fixing
this for me.  (Don't every let a software person try to do something
mechanical!)  Now I just leave everything open with PC-DITTO hangin
off the back end of the system.

Bottom line is that it seems to be stable barring the cpu connector.
I'd like to be able to turn on the machine and start working with it
immediately rather than wait for heat expansion to take its course.

Cheers!

Pavneet Arora
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         or

rom!pavneet@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca

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