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From: spencer@mica.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Technisoft RAMBoards
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Date: Sun, 15-Mar-87 18:25:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 15 18:25:20 1987
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In article <697@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>In response to a request for information concerning the RAMBOARD, from
>Technisoft.
>
>
>I strongly encourage anyone on the net to avoid doing business with Technisoft,
>Inc., and to recommend the same to their friends.  The RAMBOard comes with a
>five year guarantee.  There is no chance the company will remain in business
>long enough to honor that guarantee, with such business practices.
>
>Caveat emptor.
>
>--
>UUCP  :  kent@xanth.UUCP   or    ...seismo!decuac!edison!xanth!kent

Well, I see them as more of a bunch of guys who got together and tried to
make a board for the Amiga that was inexpensive so lots of people would
be able to get it.  I know lots of people that have Amigas, and all of them
want more memory, but few can afford it.

Memory doesn't have to be that expensive (Anybody seen the Alegra for $400+),
it just gets that way.  You could buy a Hayes modem, but how many people 
really do?  I have seen alot of US Robotics modems out there.  Lots of people
want the item (2400 baud in that case) but don't want to pay for full spec,
they will take some problems in trade for paying less money.

I have a friend working on a Hard Disk interface that plugs into the expansion
port in a very ugly, none auto configuring way, but it will work.  It means
getting a hard disk for your Amiga cheap.  We (my users group) have discussed
making them for our members so they can profit from our efforts.  We would
charge for the parts and construction, but we would be doing it as a business,
trying to get customers, we would just be filling a gap until somebody other
than Byte-by-Byte comes out with a hard disk box.  Now if that is how Techni-
Soft got started I understand why you can never get them on the phone, and 
why they blame things on UPS often (they arn't the only ones that do that).
I have found their heart to be in the right place.  The president of our 
group ordered the board.  I was impressed how ugly it was.  Ribbon cable to
an 86 pin connector.  Couldn't have passed FCC.  But when it went bad on
our Presidente' in 48 hours, they fixed it and offered to put in a fan to
dissapate the heat (now a standard feature, since they discovered heating
problems, tho' that wasn't his problem).  Sure he got the run-around, but
not everybody can be 100% together (though I guess Access Associates have
been, I still relish my Alegra and still get others to buy them by explain-
ing how happy I am with it, and what a great design it is.)

Not that I want Perry or Steve to start designing slap-together hacks for
Amiga Upgrades, but Techni-Soft has its place.  I think that is why Perry
has been so vocal about C-Ltd., and not said a word about Techni-Soft, at
least the latter doesn't pretend to be the greatest thing since sliced
peanuts.
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