Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!lcs From: lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: ALL PLEASE RESPOND... Keywords: Survey Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 02:48:38 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 64 Please take a minute to answer these questions... I am asking them mainly out of curiousity, but I do have some need for the information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. What computer do you own? If you own a C128 indicate how much 80-column video RAM you have (i.e. 16K or 64K). For those that aren't sure, the standard C128 has 16K unless you had it upgraded. The C128D has 64K. 2. What hardware (i.e. disk drives, printers, etc.--include company and model) do you own? 3. Do you own GEOS? What version? (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.0--for the 64 or 128 or both) 4. Do you own ANY kind of external RAM device? (i.e. C17xx, GEORAM, RamLink, RamDrive, Brown Box, PageFox...). How much memory does it have? 5. What is your main area of interest? (i.e. programming, graphics, music, sound, games, education, business, animation, telecommunications...) 6. Explain any comments, suggestions, criticisms, or whatever that you have with your computer and/or its software/hardware. (This is optional since it can be quite long). 7. For GEOS owners, are you satisfied with the operating system? What weaknesses do you find with it? What suggestions do you have if there were to be a version 3.0? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for your time. :) By the way, here is my answers: 1. C128 w/64K 2. 1571, 1581, Star NX1000, HotShot Printer Interface (8K buffer), 1660 and 1670 modem, 1 joystick, 1350 & 1351 mouse 3. GEOS 128 2.0 (GEOS 128 1.2, GEOS 64 1.2) 4. C1764 upgraded to 1 MB 5. graphics and animation, programming 6. Companies haven't taken advantage of the new hardware available, like the 1581 and REUs. I know they were waiting to see if enough people would purchase them, but that aided in the lack of interest in these great hardware units. When people make the decision to purchase a hardware device, they take into consideration the number of programs that support that device. In the case of the 1581 and REU, not many programs support these devices. 7. No, I'm not satisfied with GEOS (although I am not disappointed either). It can be better, much better. I have done some thinking about what version 3.0 would be like. What I have come up with is much too long to write here. The current versions biggest weakness is its clumsiness. This was written during work (and it is very busy at this computer lab) so it may not be very comprehensive. :?