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Paul Khoury wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:49:08 -0400 (EDT), Ken Manheimer wrote: > > >> On August 13, Robert W. King <rwking@ipa.net> wrote: > >> > >> >Hi Paul (or anybody else who wants to chime in)! > >> > > >> >I've more or less decided to upgrade my 701CS to a 2.1 gig hard > drive > >> >presuming > >> >I can find one for a price I can afford. The problem is > identifying > >> >vendors who > >> > >> Yeah, be careful about Poop Portable Enhancements, after > >> all the spamming and kiss-ups they've done on this list. > > > >I find this to be offensive. I happen to thing that portable > >enhancements have been getting a bum rap by a vocal minority > >(actually, on the basis of his amount of posting, on his own paul > >would seem to constitute a vocal majority:-), but had been quiet > about > >it. However, i think the kind of thing you're spouting now is > >unnecessary, gratuitous, and in fact injurious to some people's > >livelihoods, and that's not fair. > > > >I should say that i have *no* connection with the company, other than > > >being a satisfied customer. I got a 2.1 gig drive from them (which i > > >reported on the list, at the time) for a decent price and with very > >decent results. I felt well informed by them - in particular, i > found > >them to be quite candid about the impact of getting a CPU upgrade > when > >i enquired of it in person. (They cautioned that i might not see a > >big performance increase in the 701, for the reasons that have been > >bandied about on the list, and i did not do so.) I feel that their > >postings are in general *not* out of bounds, and would have no > >hesitation about recommending them. > > > >Regardless, i consider the remarks to be excessively snide and > >uncalled for, and don't like to see that on the list. Please stop > >(and maybe consider slowing down your posting rate, so you have to do > > >fewer posts and reposts to get some information out)! > > > >Ken Manheimer klm@cnri.reston.va.us > > > I'm sorry to everyone for getting carried away about the > Portable Enhancements, but it was getting to my head > that my mailebox was full of their online catalogs, maybe > Cc:ed to thinkpad@cs.utk.edu. Again, I hope that everyone > else can except my apoligies for this, and I don't mean to post > so much to the list, but I like to answer each message most of the > time > (since I now have the time), and I enjoy teaching others as well. > Thank you for your time. > > Regards, > > Paul Khoury > pkhoury@earthlink.net PaulWith your apparent disdain for portable enhancements I'm surprised you didn't respond to my earlier query about them. Do you have any quantifiable information about them? Don