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From: indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
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Subject: Re: QUERY: Reviews of telecommunication packages for Win3.0
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.214719.23313@amd.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 21:47:19 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.020132.16549@svc.portal.com> daven@svc.portal.com writes:
>In article <8320@fy.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>>Recommend you always try the shareware products first.  In this way you get to
>>know the products and don't have to rely on extreme opinions like the above.
>
>Good advice, I offer the same advice to newcomers that don't know what they
>want from a telecomm package. Now, just to toss a twist into the discussion,
>we're (Software Ventures) shipping MicroPhone II for Windows. I haven't
>seen any discussion of it here, so I thought it's time to stimulate some.
>For better or worse.  ;-)
>
>Dave Newman
>
Hi Dave,

You asked for this... I purchased MicroPhone II in my quest for a good
Windows 3 comm program (only because a fellow customer said he loved the
Mac version) for $100 more than CrossTalk for Windows. I brought it home
and logged in to our Sun 4/490 UNIX box at work through a dialback
system at 19200 baud!

Microphone II died with an "Unrecoverable Application Error" when I
tried to edit a file using vi. I sent mail to your support group and
they called me back the next day and acknowledged knowing about the bug.
I returned it the next day for a full refund.

Further, there is no online help in Microphone II. For me to recommend
it as a approved tool for our company, this is suicide! I have to then
answer the silliest of questions.

I did like the 'Watch Me' feature that learnt the script as you logged
in. The ability to have a script show up as a button on the screen is
really neat. I do miss a formal directory screen with all my numbers and
places I call in one place [This may actually be there, I only used the
s/w for a couple of hours.]

The scrolling was extremely slow, but then I am running in
1024x768x16 which I am told makes is slow.

So much for my experience with Microphone II. Those who do not use
vt100s may find it a good expensive program for $236 (at Fry's). I am
waiting to get my hands on UNICOM 2.0c which looked very promising in
its crippled state (UNICOM 2.0).
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