ALDL and the Patent WAS Diacom Cable

[Mark Romans]

Dealers referred to the cams as "Their 20k enima"  It never worked like it
was supposed to.
Most dealers if they still have it and haven't thrown it away will give it
to you for hauling it away.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannen Durphey <shannen at grolen.com>
To: gmecm at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <gmecm at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: ALDL and the Patent WAS Diacom Cable


>Eric Clark wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Cooley wrote:
>>
>> > At 06:55 PM 11/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> > >Check OUT!!!
>> > >
>> > >http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?pn=US04796206__
>
>> GM would be able to overturn this patent because of "prior art".  They
>> would have to prove they were using ALDL before the patent was issued,
>> which wouldnt be too hard.
>>
>> -Eric
>This is for the machine that GM used in their dealerships.  CAMS cost
>20K at the time it was issued, I'm told.  It's very slow, has 30Mb HD
>and 286 processor w/512k.  I haven't hooked it up to a car yet, but
>it's supposed to blow the shop scan tool away (Snappy).
>Shannen
>