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- From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
- Subject: Re: ICD Host Adapter
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.072803.28071@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
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- Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
- References: <1992Dec30.180226.22904@unislc.uucp> <JOF0P5@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <1993Jan4.022838.2123@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 07:28:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.022838.2123@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
- >tries@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Volker Tries) writes:
- >> Where can I get the new ICD Software?
- >
- >It can be found on both GEnie and on Compuserve. ICD expressly forbids the
- >re-posting of it anywhere else so you shouldn't be able to find it
- >anywhere on the net unless ICD put it there.
-
-
- Which I believe is massively unfair since most Atari users are NOT on GEnie
- or Compuserve. I realize that this might be different in the U.S., but this
- just shows how ICD fails to perceive international markets. (And I'm willing
- to bet that they sold five times as many adapters in Germany than in the U.S.)
-
- > If you have a local ICD
- >dealer they can also upgrade your software for no fee (if they will).
-
- That's the point. They charge DM 20 (some $13) for the new software. While
- this may not seem much, keep in mind that there have been quite a number of
- revisions of the (IMO very good) ICD software, and you cannot always know
- which version solves your particular problem.
-
- To be fair, there IS the possibility to d/l their software from a mailbox in
- Germany, but the long distance phone charge would be even more than DM 20 :-(
-
- Yet another example how US mfgrs ***** their European customers.
-
- -- Volker
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