Hi PaulQuote:
Originally Posted by OffTrack
Based on the track record of quality control and poor performance of BBS products over a couple of years of course I did not use any more of their products. Some of my customers of those years when I distributed BBS products likewise simply 'parked' their hardware and purchased other brand products that actually did what they said they would (unlike BBS).
Nobody can base any opinions on product quality other than on past performance. That is simply a fact of life .
If you produce a crappy product and then treat customers (and distributors) as if they are the ones at fault then you are responsible for the reputation that you have accumulated. What makes BBS even harder to understand is that they are now trying to regain their reputation by selling their hardware at higher prices than the competition.
By the way, I have no experience with recent BBS hardware and I never intend to why would I? - and I never had any issue with BBS software - it was their hardware (and associated lack of quality assurance support) that was crap, although some of the horrible communication/stability issues that BBS products had were probably due to software/hardware protection issues. What a joke that was when others where producing products to carry out similar functions and releasing it as freeware/shareware!
My old BBS gear when properly communicating and past the copy protection phase was actually quite good in software application and use.
However if the hardware was faulty and not communicating then what good was good software if it didnlt connect and run as it should have?
I have all the correspondence documentation in hand to back up all my statements.
"Forewarned is Forearmed"
regards, Daniel.
