Posted by Gareth R Halfacree on 01/10/92 11:34

Bampah wrote:
> I take it you got [to Lidl] early enough to get one or is someone else
> selling them at that price?

The only other place with them in the UK is eBay - all the sandbagging
gits who bought multiple boxes and are trying to flog 'em for £250! I
managed to drag my sorry carcass out of bed in time to be third in the
queue here in Bradford - even then I was worried I wasn't going to get
one, as the two blokes in front bought two each!

> Elsewhere I have been told that it's a re-badged Liteon 5045GDL and if
> you go to e-buyers site you will find many favourable reviews.

Aye, you can even flash it with the Liteon firmware to turn it into an
identical copy. Although in reality the Liteon is a rebadged Targa -
Targa are the OEM who make the things, which is why the Targa comes with
a 3 year warranty but the Liteon only has a 1 year warranty.

> I might have to bite the bullet and shell out the extra for the Liteon.

If it's anything like this Targa (i.e. if Liteon haven't broken too much
in the name of customised firmware), I can heartily recommend it. I've
ironed out pretty much all the little niggles - timer recordings now go
off without a hitch. I must have been doing something stupid before.

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Gareth Halfacree http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk
"If Ace Books ever came out with an edition of The Bible, both books
would be edited down to 40,000 words, and they'd be renamed "Master of
Chaos" and "The Thing With Three Souls." - Terry Carr

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