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From: mike@odgate.odesta.com (Mike J. Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Ehman monitors
Message-ID: <1991May7.223914.23691@odgate.odesta.com>
Date: 7 May 91 22:39:14 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.173229.2226@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991May2.195927.928@hubcap.clemson.edu> <80740@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Organization: Odesta Corporation, Northbrook IL.
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In article <80740@bu.edu.bu.edu> ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes) writes:
>The Ehman full- and two-page monochrome monitors receive rave reviews
>in the latest MacWorld, and the prices are quite attractive ($495 and
>$895, with expansion card). Has anyone out there ever seen one of these
>babies in action?

I've been using an Ehman 2 page monochrome monitor since December.  I
have a couple of complaints about it:

	* The text can get quite "wavy" at times -- not a real problem
	  in my application (programming) but I could see where it would
	  be to a graphic artist.

	* I often take my SE/30 home.  To do so, I go into the control
	  panel and switch the menu bar to the internal display from
	  the large screen.  The problem is that when I boot at home,
	  it takes three times (almost exactly three -- never less,
	  seldom more -- I have no idea why) for the system to boot
	  with an unfrozen mouse cursor.  If you don't hold down the
	  "M" key while booting (something I got from an Ehman support
	  guy) it *never* will boot with an unfrozen mouse cursor.
	  This is rather annoying.

My experience with Ehman order tracking was terrible.  I placed the
order and was promised delivery in ten days.  Two weeks later, I called
back and was told it had shipped.  They even gave me a Fed Ex tracer
number.  Turns out the number they gave me made no sense to Fed Ex.  So
I called them back -- and back, and back, and back.  This went on for
another two weeks.  Towards the end, I took to faxing daily messages in 48
point type asking "WHERE'S MY MONITOR?" to the service person I was
dealing with.  I finally faxed a letter directly to Michael Ehman, the
president, detailing this whole sorry mess.  I never received a
response.
	
This may have been a unusual incident -- I don't know.  

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