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Re: ZIP drive success with OS/2! Backup question?

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From: bbenson
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 19:34
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In <44mmcq$mae@news.MillComm.COM>, melkor@millcomm.com (Melkor) writes:
>In message <44d80p$okj@nnrp4.nfs.primenet.com> - bbenson@primenet.com writes:
>
>:>Yes!  Our Back Again/2 Personal Edition features several levels of data compression,
>:>a full GUI interface, a complete scheduler capable of scheduling up to 48 backup jobs,
>:>a standalone restore utility for complete disaster recovery capability, and more! 
>:>A demo is available as BA2PR31D.ZIP on our BBS at (612)730-4157 and may also be
>:>found on ftp.cdrom.com.  The eval edition also supports SCSI and IDE tape drives,
>:>but since you don't need that support, the Personal Edition is what you want.   The
>:>SRP is $49.95 but you can find it cheaper from a number of OS/2 resellers.
>
>Is the SCSI and IDE support the primary difference between the Personal and 
>Professional edition?  Could you comment on the other differences?  The 
>folks at Indelible Blue weren't really able to answer my questions the other 
>day.  Did say they sold alot of BA/2 though.

The tape drive support is the only difference - otherwise they are essentially the 
same product.  Outside of the software, they are packaged differently, etc.

>
>How about upgrades?  If the personal edition does it for me now but later I 
>need more function, is there an upgrad discount?

Any registered BA/2 Personal Edition user can upgrade to the Professional Edition 
for $49 directly from CDS.  

Cheers,
Brad Benson
CDS, Inc.

PS - I see you're a Descent lover in Rochester!  I get down there quite a bit 
(I grew up there) and I think I'm pretty good at Descent - perhaps we should 
have a match sometime!
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Subject: Re: ZIP drive success with OS/2! Backup question?
Date: 2 Oct 1995 19:34:55 GMT
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