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From: wrb@cbnews.cb.att.com (wallace.r.blackburn)
Subject: Re: Mailorder problem with U.S. Cyberlab resolved
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 16:06:12 GMT
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In article <2jlrol$rr1@access1.speedway.net> gregt@speedway.net (Greg Thomson) writes:
>
>I'm sorry for re-posting this message if you got it already, but
>I had some sort of error message come back the first time and I'm
>not sure if it got to both newsgroups.
>
>I just wanted to be fair and post a message stating that I finally
>received the CNC kit I ordered 7 months ago. Although it took so long
>to get, after receiving it, it seems as if it was worth the wait.
>Athough I do not have it entirely put together, yet, I have learned
>quite a bit about how to use stepper moters from the kit. I'm glad I
>waited for the kit (although I wish I didn't have to wait quite so
>long). The software (a CAD/CAM program written by Daniel Hudgins) also
>seems to be a very good program. The two (software and hardware) seem
>to go together pretty good.
>

Can you elaborate on this last point when you have some more experience
please?  I have to be honest - the "flavor" of articles and advertising
from US Cyberlab caused me to believe that a shareware CAD/CAM package was
thrown in that really didn't directly support the kit.  How are the two
tied together?  Will the software provided control the machine as-is?  Or
do you have to write a (what I would think would be a considerably complex)
bit of software to join the two?

>And just in case you are wondering, 'No, I'm not being paid/forced by
>anybody to put out this message'. I commend U.S. Cyberlab on bringing
>kits such as this to the market, although I think they need to do
>something about the 'mail order runaround' you have to go through to
>get the kit. That voicemail system has got to go, also, sorry...
>
>Thanks for all the responses to my previous message, maybe they had
>something to do with me finally getting the rest of my kit. I'll never
>know.
>
>Greg
>
>(The price was also good at $700, compared to the retail unit I found
>for about $4500.)
>
>-- 
>     Greg Thomson - Small Business Contacts BBS - 1-714-637-9927,,,2222
>
>                      send e-mail to gregt@speedway.net


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