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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:08:35 -0600, Don Rich wrote: >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 > According to a friend, you can find them easily on the list, and though their stuff is pretty good, their prices are huge. Paul