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To: Stuart Scolnik who wrote (399)	4/13/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: Wheats	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 516

OK Guys, I don't like 2000i better than anyone else, but I am using it with limited success. I have a Pentium II 333 with 256Meg RAM, and am able to run the quote, news, and chart windows together, along with a few other applications active. While there are a lot of problems with this release, it is usable if you are careful with the collection templates in the Global Server, and the history you import from the CD and their online updater. Here's what I did: 1) Collecting Stocks and Indices only; believe it or not this still amounts to 62K symbols -- don't ask me why. 2) Collecting only 3 days of Ticks and other unimportant data. 3) Imported history of only the stocks I care to track, and 5 years history only; this was very time consuming because the CD supplied is kind of in a random order. Of course, the Server (don't know who its serving though -- certainly not me) begins to collect data on a forward basis for all 62K symbols -- so, get a big hard drive. Is this stupid or what? My biggest headaches now: 1) On the chart window, the arrow or scroll keys are useless to go to the next stock of your interest because it just scrolls to the next symbol -- through all 62K of them. Why did they even leave the icon on the tool bar? So, I need to keep a list of my stocks and key them in each time I wish to view the charts. 2) You cannot customize tool bars to include distinct indicators (RSI, MACD, etc.) because there are no analysis icons available. I like to first view a chart, then look at each of my favorite indicators separately. It takes many more key strokes now. Incidently, I did not have these headaches in TS Version 4. What the Company fails to understand is that a new version should be better than the previous, and should not degrade its functionality. Furthermore, I feel that those of us, like myself, waited for the general release of the product, but I feel I'm using a Beta version instead. I'm very disappointed, and its sucked up a lot of my time. But look at the bright side, they claim its Y2K compliant.