[TenTec] 566 Orion II pictures / 565 v2.0 firmware

[Richard Detweiler]

Lee,

That is probably the best way to describe the delima of software!

TT Will deliver V2,   If it turns out to work well out of the box,  all will 
be praises 6 months down the road...

Best wishes
Rich
K5SF


>From: Lee A Crocker <lee_crocker at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>To: tentec at contesting.com
>Subject: [TenTec] 566 Orion II pictures / 565 v2.0 firmware
>Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:28:55 -0800 (PST)
>
>I have never seen anything "official" regarding 2
>versions of the firmware.  What I saw was some idle
>speculation that there would "have" to be 2 versions.
>One could just as easlily write the code to be
>processor aware and install what is needed for either
>Orion.
>
>I guess Ten Tec programmers should be working on this
>day and night even though it's Christmas in the
>Smokies and they have families etc.  God knows if we
>don't get V2 before the New Year there will be hell to
>pay, but then if they released it today and it was
>buggy there would be hell 2 pay so I guess the common
>denominator is there is going to be hell to pay for
>the free upgrade no matter when its released.  If I
>was a Ten Tec programmer I might ask the question: if
>there is only hell to pay, why bother with an early
>release?  I'd just enjoy the holidays and wait till
>after the holidays to pay hell.
>
>73 W9OY
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