[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

[Roger Taylor]

At 12:27 AM 5/19/2010, you wrote:
>On May 19, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Roger Taylor wrote:
>
> > Boisy, the entire pak and what it can do right smack out of the 
> box speaks for itself and is not inferior to anything Cloud-9 makes.
>
>Roger, I hear you.  It's your product, you are proud of it, and you 
>are guarded and wary when I post something about it.  But by selling 
>products that compete with Cloud-9 (Drive Pak, serial cables, 
>CoCoNet) you have made yourself a competitor of Cloud-9, and as 
>such, you should expect and be prepared for a level of scrutiny that 
>comes with that.  Likewise, I have a responsibility to be fair and 
>honest. That's competition.
>
> > When you compare apples and oranges yet give only a speed 
> comparison between them and purposely leave out all the other good 
> stuff, this can be seen as a bit below the belt.
>
>It is your prerogative to make and market any product you want. When 
>it competes with a product that we make, it is our prerogative to 
>study yours, compare it to ours, and point out where they are 
>different. Ultimately the customer decides.  I am not using 
>disparaging words... I am not hitting below the belt... I am 
>employing mathematics, measurement tools like megaread, and 
>benchmark practices that have stood the test of time. If you don't 
>like the conclusions that I have drawn, you are free to offer a 
>rebuttal or innovate your way past us.
>
> > I'll be posting demo videos over time that hopefully will help 
> clear up some of these misunderstandings you guys seem to have and 
> hopefully win back the confidence of (x) number of people whom 
> you've tried to pursuade to look elsewhere for a modern CoCo storage solution.
>
>I welcome that.
>--


The ego, Boisy.  I really thought Mark's couldn't be topped, but I 
don't know....

Anything you bring out loud here is on you.  Just remember that.



-- 
~ Roger Taylor