[Pro2006] Good discussion

[Bob Whiston]

At 00:03 06-10-05, Mark Meece wrote:

>Where can I find more information about the Signal Intelligence software?

         You probably know it better by the name `Scan*' or `ScanStar' 
software.  The `address' for the site is:

         http://www.scanstar.com/index.html

         A word of `WARNING'...  {WAN GRIN!}  The software is very 
`pricey'!  However...  At least for the OPTO equipt `05s and `06s it does 
what they say it does and does it quite well!  I've got a copy of one 
version of their old "Scan *" and a copy of their latest and depending upon 
what computer I'm using, an old 486 based `luggable' / laptop / `desktop' 
running PC DOS 7 / WFW 3.11 or  a newer machine running WIN98se or newer 
either piece of software does exactly what I want it to do.  *If* you are 
looking for `commercial' "bullet-proof" software this is like TBBS vs other 
BBS software back in the days of `standalone' BBSes.  The others `worked' 
but you had to be `on top of them' all the time.  TBBS, OTOH, was so 
`bullet-proof' that one could get it set up and then pretty much forget 
about it except to occasionally add or subtract the `echo' or two as needed 
or requested!  (I personally ran TBBS from 1990 up until just this last 
August when I started getting ready to move and needed to get stuff packed 
and ready to go.  During all those years the *only* `problems' I ever had 
was strictly *hardware* related.  IE: I lost one HD, had some memory get 
`flakey', and had a couple MBs decide to `go south' on me!  The software 
and configuration *never* gave me any problems.  [I used to have to listen 
to other SysOps moaning about this and that in their software doing this 
and that whilst also `claiming' that the same software was so good. 
{CHORTLE!}])  For *me* the `SigInt' software products are quite similar to 
that TBBS software.  YMMV?  Pick up the `demo' and give it a try.



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        Bob Whiston


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