Support for obsolete products

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Thu May 7 13:14:53 1998

> Locating DigiData from their web page (they WERE still doing business)
> gave me a email contact address. Sent a polite note to an "engineer/
> support" address and about how I was doing some "software archeology"
> and needed to restore one of their old drives. Within 24 hours I
> received a very nice reply wanting to know where he should send "the
> dead sea scrolls!"

Some of the folks at Motorola are also good about stuff like this. Many
times I have needed data sheets for some of their more obscure, long
obsolete chips, and they came thru with free photocopies from some ancient
databooks.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 13:14:53 BST