Steven Hirsch wrote:
  Dave,
 There is no reason to turn on the hot and cold running nastiness and
 sarcasm.  I really thought you were above this sort of behavior.
 I WAS NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE APPLICATION OR YOUR SUPPORT OF IT.
 HOW MUCH CLEARER CAN I MAKE THIS?
 If you are LOOKING for a confrontation, you've come to the wrong place.
 Since things have gone so sour here ... yada yada yada...
 
 Steve, dude, you are way over-reacting.  No one is being nasty, nor
 not-playfully-sarcastic.  Let me take a quick shot at clarifying this
 minor set of email-muddled misunderstandings, then I'll shut up about it.
 Your original post ...
 " but IMD does not recognize my Compaticard IV (why on earth does it
 restrict you to drives A-D??). "
  ... if interpreted as such, does read like a bit of minor
 complaining... specifically the "why on earth ... ??".   Now, because
 I've emailed/posted with you for a fairly long time now, I have a sense
 of your style, and know that you were just exclaiming aloud without
 meaning anything by it.
 Similarly, Dave's responses:
 "Why on earth did IBM define the PC with only enough bits in the drive
 select/motor on register for 4 drives ... A-D are the standard drives
 suspported by the hardware -- anything else needs "special drivers" and
 I'm just not going there... But you can get a full refund with the
 "DELETE" command so all is not lost."
 and
 " ... so instead of complaining about it, you can put in however much
 time you think should have been put into supporting your special
 hardware yourself!"
 ... I thought were hilarious, and while I don't know for sure, I took it
 as he was just trying to be funny while expressing some very mild
 flabbergastion over your exclamation about limitations of his program.
 Similarly, my responses: "Yeah, and anyway, 4 drives ought to be more
 than enough for anybody! lol. "
 and
 "why IMD doesn't provide a free interface that allows me to plug in my
 S-100 disk controller floppy cable to a special adapter that I can
 insert into the 3.5" floppy drive of my PC.. ...Is it me, or is there
 just something wrong with that Dave Dunfield guy?   Or are ALL Canadians
 like that?? "
  ... was meant to continue the very funny (to me, and at least a few
 others) situation by pretending to demand EVEN MORE of Dave.
  Ok?  Are we all clear now?
  
        No.
8-P
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