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- From: videoking@mbox200.swipnet.se (Johan Otterstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Followup: LinkIt! works - NOT!
- Date: 23 Mar 96 02:16:39 -500
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- >I posted that message w/o realizing I messed up the "Subject :" line.
- >I didn't get any replies from the LinkIt e-mail address nor from the
- >newsgroup. The co. in question had full page ads in Amazing Amiga for
- >a number of months so I supposed that someone else out there in Amiga-
- >land bought this thing.
- >So here with that slight correction in the hope someone will answer.
- >
- >On 20 Mar 1996, Dieter Zander wrote:
- >
- >> Hello,
- >> Does anybody have something positive to say about LinkIt! ?
- >> I purchased LinkIt! directly from the co. for U.S.$59.95.
- >> It came in a package labeled "Special Version".
- >> I did not order any "Special Version".
- >> Inside it tells you they are having production problems with
- >> their Parallel cable that is supposed to have special electronic
- >> circuits and that meanwhile you should use the included Serial cable.
- >> They included a sticker on the registration card that promises
- >> a "FREE" (?) Parallel cable when (?) that becomes available.
- >> So far I have only been able to transfer files fom the AMIGA 2500
- >> to various PC's.
- >> Any attempt to transfer files from the PC's to the AMIGA freezes
- >> both computers up - usually after about 4kbytes.
- >> (Also the software does not include any program to convert GIF files
- >> to something my Amiga would recognise like JPEG, Raw etc..)
- >> Does anybody have any good experiences to report with that company
- >> or have I been had? I noticed that there were never any postings about
- >> LinkIt in any of the Amiga related newsgroups.
- >> Thanks for any informative reply, dzander@umd5.umd.edu
- >>
- >> P.S. I did contact them through their e-mail address about these problems.
- >
- >
- >
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- It was tested in Amiga Format an got GOLD 90%
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