Axe to Grind

Guys: Thanks to everyone who submitted information on my *controller* cards. I got pretty much everything I need to know on the -05 cards, but the -TB1 is still a problem. WD implied over the phone that this was custom made. OK. It is currently mounted in a Radio Shack cabinet with a Tandon 15Mb drive. Any Ideas? OK, maybe it's not really *that* relevent to this forum, but I'll relate the story anyway. In the early to mid 1980's, EMULEX purchased Persyst, a manufacturer of PeeCee display adaptors. Persyst (now EMULEX) made a pretty cool (for the time) 16-bit hi-rez display adaptor for the PC-AT called the BoB-16. They named it that because it represented the "Best of Both" the MDA and EGA adaptors in use at the time (that, and it was 16-bit). I bought one of these (cheaply, I'll admit) in 1988. I was gonna use it with a Mitsubishi Multisynch monitor (Which was pretty cool in its own right-- it could handle CGA, MDA, EGA, *and* composite video!). I got the docs and the driver kit from EMULEX (they did that much). So far so good. But the Windoze driver was for ver. 1.00! Another call to Emulex, and I was informed that "We don't make that board anymore, and we're not going to support it under Windoze 2.0". "Okay, that's cool, I understand how that goes. So, could you please give me the source for the 1.0 driver, so I can modify it?" "I'm sorry sir, but that's against company policy . . ." After many weeks of wheedling, cajoling, begging, pleading, and otherwise being a real pest, I gave up, swearing to Everything Holy that I would NEVER under any conditions purchase anything from EMULEX ever agin. Of course were something like this happen today, I could broadcast this on the Newsgroups or on a Web Page, and all of the bad press would stomp the likes of EMULEX into submission. End of Story. I still have the BoB-16 in a closet somewhere . . . Jeff