Re: Allison Upgrade

[wsgentry@nedata.reston.ingr.com (W. Scott Gentry)]

litbisc@wam.umd.edu (Edward Brown Shipe) writes:

>     Not like I really care anymore, but a long time a go I sent $50 to
>Alltech for the Allison hardware & software upgrade.  I got a minor software
>update, and the promise that when the hardware is available, they will send
>it along with new software.  I think that was like a year or so ago...  :)
>Anyone have any ideas on what ever happened???

I have a good idea what happened with both the hardware and the software.

The author of the software is very slowly making progress because of an
extreme lack of time.  Rumor has it he wants to spend a lot of time with his
son because his son is more important to him than anything in the world.  
Besides, his IIgs broke about two months ago and it only got fixed last week
because a dealer had been giving him a run around about motherboard replacement.

Additionally, the person doing the calibration of the boards was waiting
for his GS to get fixed because of the same circumstances that happened
to the author.  See the dealer didn't want to work on the computer but took
it anyway.  The guy doing the calibrating found a different dealer who only
took two weeks to get the thing fixed.

That said, both the author and the person doing the calibration are working
on getting things done, but the authors progress is very slow because 
programming an hour or two here and there is not a normal operating mode.

The author also understands that people have been more than patient with him
and will accept any punishment they deem appropriate.

Have a nice day!

Oh... I'm the author and the person doing the calibration of boards. :-)

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