Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!microsoft!iank From: iank@microsoft.UUCP (Ian KENNEDY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Time to talk about the Colorburst peripheral from M.A.S.T.? Message-ID: <70193@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 24 Jan 91 00:02:11 GMT References: Reply-To: iank@microsoft.UUCP (Ian KENNEDY) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 25 I made the mistake of buying M.A.S.Ts twindrive floppy. The unit I recieved was non-functional. I sent it back and recieved one that works...sort of. As long as I don't try to use BAD or another "disk intensive" utility to write to it I have no problems. Anything that that writes to the drive excessivly will eventually fail or generate bad data. After this experience I'm very wary of anything these guys have to offer. The concept of a display device that plugs into the RGB port on a computer seems a bit...un-flexable. What can you use with it? Does it support Intuition, therefore Workbench. Will it work with the ECS? And after using the toaster, I find very hard to believe that a device of this type will provide anywhere near the performance of the toaster. These are the same guys who advertised a 68030/scsi/8MBram expansion device last year. Haven't seen it yet. They also advertised a de-interlacer device called "flick-off" that never showed up on the market. For being such a large, "international" comapny they never seem to have in stock what they advertise. /*************** Ian Kennedy My views are not those of my employer. ****************/ t