On (12 Aug 96) Bill Cheek wrote to Martin Niemeyer...
 BC> Yo! Martin:
 BC> Saturday August 10 1996 09:55, Martin Niemeyer wrote to Bud Jamison:
 MN> I am one of the original customers of ScanWare, and just love it.
 BC> Amazing, but I never heard if ScanWare before they posted their notice
 BC> of shutting it down.
 BC> Would you mind describing the product and what it does?
I can't tell you anything about the shareware version, I only used
it for a short period of time, then I liked it so much, I registered
it. As you can see my version is just a little over three years old.
Here is what part of the documentation has to say about it:
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³ FCC Frequency Retrieval System, Ver 1.15 ³
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³ 6/28/93  release of ScanWare's ÿdatabase ³
³ management ÿsystem ÿfor the ÿFCC ÿPublic ³
³ Service Frequency Databases.  REGISTERED ³
³ version ÿÿincludes ÿÿprogram ÿÿand ÿÿFCC ³
³ database ÿÿfor ÿany ÿstate ÿin ÿthe ÿUS. ³
³ Includes ÿÿpolice, ÿÿÿfire, ÿÿÿbusiness, ³
³ emergency, ÿambulance, ÿmarine, ÿpagers, ³
³ land ÿtransportation, ÿÿbroadcast, ÿÿand ³
³ many, ÿÿmany ÿothers.  ÿAllows ÿyou ÿto: ³
³ Browse, Search, Scan, Query, View, ÿAdd, ³
³ Edit, Delete, Filter, Sort, or output to ³
³ Screen, ÿÿÿDisk, ÿÿDatabase ÿor ÿÿPrint. ³
³ Supports CGA, ÿEGA, ÿVGA or Mono and ÿis ³
³ fully ÿÿcolor ÿconfigurable.  ÿÿSupports ³
³ multiple Drives and/or Paths.  ÿComplete ³
³ on-line Help.  If you are a scanner buff ³
³ or into amateur radio, get this one.  ÿA ³
³ very ÿÿcomprehensive ÿand ÿÿconfigurable ³
³ frequency management system.             ³
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I really like it. It came with all the latest frequencies for
Oregon, based on the FCC's most current information. It sorted
fields fast on my 386 and lightning fast on my 486. I see my copy is
older than I thought, but even this copy fulfilled my needs and
allowed me to find all the frequencies that I wanted for my scanner.
It also contained a number of frequencies that I couldn't find in
Police Call. I don't know what updates the current program has over
the older program. One thing that really impressed me too, was when
I initially started using the program, I had a problem getting it to
sort right. I logged on the Scanware BBS and left a message asking a
few questions, expecting to log back on in a day or two. Three hours
later at around 8 pm, my phone rang and it was one of the authors
calling back to explain what I was doing wrong. I was new to
databases at the time, so it took about a half hour for him to set
me straight. After ten minutes, I offered to hang up and call him
back, since the problem was not with the program but with my
knowledge at the time. He wouldn't hear of any such thing, and told
me he would be on the phone as long as it took to get me going. You
can't beat that for customer support!
Martin
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