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From: umhild11@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jeff 'Zar' Hildebrand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Blackbox/MIO comparison
Summary: MIO bashing?
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.215154.24595@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:51:54 GMT
References: <5998@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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I just finished reading the above-mentioned article, and I must say that it
presented a good deal of useful information.  The odd thing that I noticed (and
that prompted me to post this message) is that I have NEVER encountered a
single bug that is mentioned in this article.  I don't know if I am just lucky,
my mine performs flawlessly.  Mine is the 1Meg version, and does not have the
monitor port, so I suppose it is a slightly new model, and perhaps some of the
bugs were repaired.  Oops, I just remembered that I did encounter one of the
bugs mentioned in the article - if I used BobTerm, and tried to do a file
transfer with ASCII translation it would lock up.  BobTerm 1.20 does in fact
fix this problem.  My print spooler displays none of the bugs mentioned, and I
never loose my carrier spontaneously.  I've had my MIO for about 3 years now,
and I bought it 3rd hand. 

Jeff