Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!lotus!cjhoward
From: cjhoward@lotus.waterloo.edu (Caleb J. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MindLight 7
Keywords: gain requester
Message-ID: <9929@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 88 14:22:19 GMT
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     Hi there.
     I just received my MindLight 7 from Visual aurals after an
acceptably short wait state.  First off, let me just say that this
is the finest product I've ever seen from anybody to do anything.
     It's a psychodelic light show drug toy.  Like a laser show,
but more personal.  truly spectacular graphics varying at awsome
speeds accoreding to user input and ambient or piped sound.
     I do have a problem with it, however.  I always have to boot
it four or five times before it will work.  Most of the time it
comes up with a requestor telling me to turn up my gain controlls,
and that it's waiting, and then hangs.  I have turned all the knobs 
up, then down, then sideways.  I have piped signals with lots of
gain into it.  I have screamed prayers to allah into its built in
condensor mike.  Only about one time in five does it not hang, and
there seems to be no way to affect its decision one way or the
other.  The manual, while well laid out, and very informative,
does not seem to mention how to appease this godly bit of
technology.
     Perhaps someone could alleviate my only frustration with
this superlative device.
     Let me reiterate:  Even WITH this major source of irritation,
this is the closest thing I've ever seen to the real reason I 
love computers.  Thank you, Visual Aurals, for seeing fit to exist.

-Caleb J. Howard

--
Caleb J. Howard             "They pushed the button, Jim"
University of Waterloo      "What button, Billy?"
                            "The big, red one."