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From: gnome@oliveb.olivetti.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fastback --- GARBAGE ALERT
Message-ID: <12973@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 16 Jan 88 02:22:42 GMT
References: <5171@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, CA
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> (FLAME ON)
> The company clearly decided to market this product knowing 
> it was incomplete and would waste lots of time of the unsuspecting
> users. Numerous phone calls to tech support only got me busy signals.

I had the misfortune of using this crappy program on an ATT 6300.
The "writers" of this program decided that they would assume that
the disk-drives MUST spin while the door is open.  If not, the
program's first write is done before the drive has spun-up.
And, being the software whiz-kids that they are, they never
bother to do a retry.  In other words, their program just
won't work on some machines.  I called them and they said,
"Oh well. Sorry."