Trace Settings [RE-wrenches]

[Jack D West]

Sharkey,

You do make some good points and I agree it would be nice it have non volatile memory, but
till we do...

When a customer changes settings, or otherwise tinkers with his system and gets himself in
trouble that can't be solved over the phone, I make a housecall, and send them a bill.

Jack

Sharkey wrote:

>         OK, Point Taken! BUT.... What do you do when the customer is knowledgeable
> enough to change their own settings and doesn't write them down? For that
> matter, the settings on my home system change from season to season, and
> are completely reprogrammed *four times* each June and July when the system
> is installed at the OCF.
>         We are talking about a sophisticated device here, one that should be fully
> capable of storing and recalling multiple configurations without scrolling
> through multiple layers of confusing menus. Fer Cryin Out Loud! What if you
> had to set the time, date, modem, printers, video, HDD and FDD type, etc
> every time you shut your computer off and turned it back on? I've seen
> pocket calculators with better memories than some of the electronics we
> work with daily in RE.
>         When I crabbed at Vanderhoof last year at the OCF, he told me to put a
> small gel-cell on the DC input to the Trace to keep it alive during power
> downs. I think an after-market EPROM memory module with the aforementioned
> store and recall functions would be a big seller! How many of you would buy
> one (or more)? Even just being able to dump the data back into the SW with
> a laptop or PC would be a big improvement. I work with business telephone
> switches every day that can do this.
>
>         -S
>
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