Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unhd.unh.edu!IceCube.unh.edu!tjb From: tjb@IceCube.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: '040 Upgrade Message-ID: <1991Apr11.214458.8580@IceCube.unh.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 21:44:58 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: tjb consulting, dover nh Lines: 41 In article kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) writes: >Well my '040 upgrade is here. Total 8 week turnaround, not great, not >bad. Just long enough for you to be impatient and short enough so you >don't cancel the order. > >Now here's the problem I now have a $1000 piece of worthless hardware. >You see someone neglected to ship my 2.0/2.1 optical disk. My upgrade >board is totally useless until I get my software. Why the hell send the >hardware if you don't ship the software needed to run the hardware? >Am I missing something? I don't think so, but if I am let me know. > >Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'm in HELL. I'm being tortured. I can see my upgrade >but I can't use it. Somebody, anybody, save me. > ...stuff deleted... >/* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */ I ordered my upgrade from MIT the same week I got my BL firesale cube, last November. I have called an average of once a week, starting in late February. I got pretty close back in mid-March, when there were two left, but one was DOA. I am "next on the list" with the possibility of another shipment "in the next two weeks." Sometimes I think I should be more upset (with who?) but my '030 1.0a cube is still (personally speaking) better than any Mac, DECstation, or anything else I've used, excepting maybe an '040 2.1 cube. So I wait patiently, knowing that when it arrives, it will be worth the wait. It wouldn't be so bad if all the new software everyone was writing still worked under 1.0a, but on the bright side, it will make the upgrade arrival even more rewarding. Still waiting... tjb -- ____________________________________________________________________________ | INTERNET: tjb@IceCube.unh.edu USPS: Thomas Baker | | USENET: uunet!IceCube.unh.edu!tjb P.O. Box 213 | | NeXT: tjb@IceCube.unh.edu Durham, NH 03824 |