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From: Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 00:51:50 +0800
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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Lance Cavener wrote:
>
... snip ...
I don't know about
> you people, but up here in Canada, not giving out schematics is
> perfectly legal.
>
You know I had this Atari-286 with most stuff built into motherboard.
Video was EGA and manual said you _could_ plug in a video card and
use it instead of on-board video or together with it (dual display).
It _did_not_ say how to disable on-board EGA if you plug a VGA card
in. Atari sales people here said there was a combination of dip
switches to do that, but Atari never told them _which_ combination.
Well, with 5 dip switches it doesn't take long to try all of them
out -- none worked. What do you do? You cut couple of tracks on
the motherboard to disable the video circuit.
Needless to say, there was no schematic diagram, and yes, you could
persuade Atari to sell one to you for a thousand bucks or so (don't
remember how much exactly) and an NDA.
Conclusion: I will never buy, nor advise anyone to buy anything with
"Atari" on it.
Anyway, I think nobody's talking about schematics in this case.
It's more like not providing a user's manual...
--
Dimitri
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