[Coco] Glenside IDE Hard Drive Interface --- HOW-TO

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Wed Nov 7 12:04:18 EST 2007


On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:33:14PM +0000, Manny wrote:
> Mark Marlette wrote:
> >Manny,
> >
> >FYI: I don't set the pricing of the software, only the hardware.
> >
> >I will not tell Bob V. what VED is worth or Boisy what his products are 
> >worth. They tell me and I purchase it from them. Bob V.'s software went 
> >away and I contacted him and got it back in distribution. It is too good 
> >to let it go....
> 
> I never said that you should tell them what the price should be. All I 
> said was that I thought the price of one of the products you sold was 
> too expensive, IMHO. That being said, I didn't know that you didn't 
> control the price of the software you sold. I figured you purchased the 
> rights (or what have you) and then set a price yourself. :)
> 
> I also commend you for saving a piece of CoCo history in the right manner.
> 
> >Once you have used either one of their products you will ask yourself 
> >this.... Why did I waste my time trying to find a PD product? Their work 
> >is top notch period.
> 
> The product may be top notch. I didn't question that, either. (Except 
> for my religious comment about Vi vs. Emacs. ;) ) I personally cannot 
> afford to spend $25.00 (+ s/h) on an editor for the CoCo. That's why one 
> has to go to the public domain if there is nothing else available that's 
> cheaper.

I never thought of Ved as being vi like! Personally I wish I had a decent
vi clone for nitros-9!! :-) While I'm at a shell more like bash or zsh would
be nice also! :-) ( for the humor impaired I was joking!! )

Frank



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