>        I think my little explaination stired the halls of power in this
 > board (Hi. Artie) as I'm now having to use my other QWKRR to do this
 > reply (reg. to my name not my handle).

:)  Well, you will do funny things when joining a BBS!  :)

 > How's your 65 going? No probs. I hope?

A small video problem, and a large time problem!  :)

 >  RA>  > It has the Real Time Clock option which brought the price all up
 >  RA> Useful?
 >       ^^^^^ So far its as usefull as time and date stamping on GEOS, I
 > haven't got right into that yet.  But on the other hand QWKRR sets up
 > straight away with the RTC and so does GEOS and Gateway.  That about my
 > limits at the moment although I do sometimes check when a file was DLd
 > or transferred to a disk.

With the amount of files I grab time stamping would be pretty useful!

 >  RA> Are you happy with it?
 > Yes, so far.  I do have a prob. with the transformer slipping out of
 > the plug or the like.  Its the rotten euro. connector, it doesn't like
 > hanging vertically from the bower board.

A bit of electrician's tape will hold it in!  :)

 >  RA> thing?  Does most/all software handle it?
 > Yes and Yes,  Disks can be formatted as 1581 and have subdirectories or
 > they can be formatted in Native mode (much like Ramlink) and have
 > emulaton partitions (1581 with subs. 1571,1541) or native.  Depending
 > on the type disk you can have any combination of the above.

That's very flexible!

 > As for software, any progs. that make direct calls to undoc. drive rom
 > routines etc probably won't work and heavily protected software maybe

As could be expected.

 > not also.  There is a list of progs. that do work and it is mentioned
 > that it is not the definitive list.  Also it claims to be 'more
 > compatable with commercial productivity software than the 1581' because
 > it can 'emulate the exact track and sector layout of 1541 and 1571 disks'

Bet it doesn't work with Jiffy-DOS tho'!  :)

 > BTW how long did Grapevine take to send the 65 to you?  I ordered a REU

When I originally ordered I asked for a PAL system.  When I rang back some
time later they told me they were waiting on NTSC chips.  I told them I
wanted PAL, and it arrived less than 2 weeks later.  If they'd bothered
listening the first time I would have had it in Sept./Oct.

 > and after over a month it was still sitting on the desk of the person
 > who does the airmails.  Although it only took 10 days to get here after
 > y second call.  I'll tell you one thing their name doesn't reflect
 > their speed of delivery (nothing like how a rumor travels on a Grapevine).

:)  The general concensus seems to be that they are pretty ordinary to deal
with - but then again we don't have a lot of choice these days :(

R.

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