There is a common denominator that has been overlooked here... Gaston Bastiens. For those of you who go back far enough, you may remember a couple of companies known as Quarterdeck and Datastorm Technologies. Gaston Bastiens took the helm of Quarterdeck and went on a buying spree that included slurping up privately held Datastorm Technologies. Like his tenure at L&H, this period was known for cooking the books and leaving the original folks hosed.
It was a glorious day when those of us who used to work at Datastorm saw Gaston being led away in chains... http://www.flickr.com/photos/markdionne/294806554/ We weren't the least bit surprised that he had done it again... we were just pleased that he got prosecuted this time.
I worked in the tech support department for Datastorm Technologies when they shipped Procomm Plus for Windows 2.x. This was the first version that contained fax capabilities.
Because the fax technology was purchased and then, ahem, integrated, the error messages were quite frustrating.
Nearly any issue even remotely relating to fax problems returned the error: Serial Comm or File System Error
What a PITA...
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There is a common denominator that has been overlooked here... Gaston Bastiens. For those of you who go back far enough, you may remember a couple of companies known as Quarterdeck and Datastorm Technologies. Gaston Bastiens took the helm of Quarterdeck and went on a buying spree that included slurping up privately held Datastorm Technologies. Like his tenure at L&H, this period was known for cooking the books and leaving the original folks hosed. It was a glorious day when those of us who used to work at Datastorm saw Gaston being led away in chains... http://www.flickr.com/photos/markdionne/294806554/ We weren't the least bit surprised that he had done it again... we were just pleased that he got prosecuted this time.
I worked in the tech support department for Datastorm Technologies when they shipped Procomm Plus for Windows 2.x. This was the first version that contained fax capabilities. Because the fax technology was purchased and then, ahem, integrated, the error messages were quite frustrating. Nearly any issue even remotely relating to fax problems returned the error: Serial Comm or File System Error What a PITA...