Msg: 5890 *Conference*
07-17-95 14:47:27
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : HAROLD ARNOLD
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5889 (100DUET?)
In response to your question... > Reading through the catalog, 100duet was conspicuous by its absence. > Why did you decide to stop selling it? The product 100duet was great! This is true. But, getting the cables and keeping up with the code changes to meet all the system versions from Apple Computer Corp. was not fun. Getting reliable cables (originally an Apply Writer I cable) was a nightmare. Not all cable manufactuers make the cable the same way ... don't ask me why. And, if I wanted consistancy I'd have to have them built to my spects. And, to meet the price I'd have to manufacture hundreds at a time. Sorry to say but 100duet sales ... or lack of them ... just didn't merrit the expense. Code changes were another story. To make a long story short, the author, Scott Anderson, just could not see spending hundreds of hours rewriting and testing the duet series each time Apple changed their mind. Scott, like myself, have jobs. Sales of Apple Mac products represents about 1/2 of 1% of my overall sales. Industry wide, Mac sales represents only 5% of the total personal computer market ... not worth anyone getting involved ... especially when they have to put food on the table. > Whenever anyone asks how to get data from a Model T to a Mac I > always recommend 100duet, and give him Club 100's phone number. Looks like you're going to have to think up a whole new recommendation package for your Mac-in-friends. Here's my suggestions: 1) Get the THE WHOLE ENCHILADA series document entitled "Computer-2-Computer File Transfers" and follow along. 2) Get an old DOS computer, equip it with Lapdos II for file transfers between Model "T"s and/or TPDD/2s. Then, a. use either Laplink Mac to trade files between the DOS and Mac computers, or b. save file to HD disk on the DOS computer then use the SmartDrive feature under System 7 to read DOS disks from the Mac, or c. run Lapdos II under the MSDOS emulator on a Power Mac. 3) Upload files from your Model "T" to an online service, then use your Mac to download the files. 4) Set your Mac up as a host (BBS) and, a. use a null-modem cable and transfer files via any Mac terminal program and your Model "T"s telcom program ... or from directly in a .DO file (see THE WHOLE ENCHILADA serice document mentioned above) b. call it via phone lines and modems. --- See Harold, there are choices ... lot's of them. 100duet was just one of the many choices available but now it is gone. Perhaps, at long last, Mac users will finally have to learn ... to use their thinking caps. -Rick-