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- From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- Subject: Re: a little yarn about Diamond Comp. Products
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.082811.7719@netcom.com>
- Keywords: Diamond suck s3 stealth antios2
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:28:11 GMT
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- davidn@cs.tamu.edu (David E Nichols) writes:
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- >Let me tell you about Diamond. I used to have a Trident, and they have had
- >OS/2 2.0 support since 2.0 was in beta. Then I got a new computer and a
- >Stealth. Cool, right? Wrong.
- >Round abouts when GA was released, Diamond's BBS had message areas. The
- >Stealth areas had a few messages requesting OS/2 2.0 drivers, along with a lot
- >of other questions. Over time, I noticed nore and more messages relating to
- >OS/2 drivers, and more and more of them were rude (angry customers) due
- >to Diamond's lack of response. Suddenly, there were no more message areas at
- >all.
-
- How curious ! The exact same thing happened with orchid's bbs. I have also
- encountered a trail of annoyed reps when asking about os/2 drivers.
- Apparently us os/2ers are getting a reputation for badgering hardware makers !
-
- [sam]
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