[Coco] Deluxe Wireless Pak on hold

[Roger Taylor]

After reading the rest of this e-mail, I want any pending customer 
who might be reading this to make a decision to either convert their 
order to a Drive Pak or to wait it out with me until A7 finishes 
their relocation or whatever is going on.

I'll be contacting the pending customers directly as well but for 
anybody else who wanted one of these cartridges and was wondering why 
the ad vanished from coco3.com, I wanted to explain.

The wireless pak uses the "EB301" bluetooth module made by A7 
Engineering Corp.  My pak brings the 6551's signals out to a header 
that matches the pins of the EB301 module, so I can plug the module 
in to complete the serial pak into a wireless pak.  Without the EB301 
module, the pak is basically a serial project pak with TTL signals at 
the header.

I have 6 or 7 pending orders of the Deluxe Wireless Pak that are 
overdue.  My last order for 10 buetooth modules was ignored by A7 and 
the money was refunded.  Actually, their authorization charge was 
released back and the actual charge wasn't made.  This was 2 months ago.

Their website leads to a maintenance page when you try to order the 
modules.  I haven't received any replies to their e-mails.

A7 formerly occupied a suite in a building with other companies.  The 
new tenants answered the phone using a name with the word 
"engineering" in it, or so I think I heard it that way, which is kind 
of odd to me but I haven't probed any further about that.  But one of 
the ladies that I finally got passed the phone to after a bit 
referred to the A7 owner by first name and sounded as if she knew 
him, and she gave me his cel phone #.

It is in fact the owner of A7.  He has not replied to my voicemail 
recently left.  I'll try periodically to reach him but I won't bug 
him to death to the point where he doesn't want to deal with me.

I'll let you guys know when I hear something else.  A7 makes a lot of 
stuff, and I feel confident that they will get back rolling soon.  I 
welcome anybody to visit A7's web site to see the little issue I'm 
dealing with:
http://www.a7eng.com/products/bluetooth/productpages/eb301serialbtadapters.htm#orderinfo

To the many existing customers of the Wireless Pak, I want to thank 
you very much for supporting the efforts, and I want to reassure that 
the support will continue.  CoCoNet makes use of the pak to give you 
wireless floppy disks from a nearby PC or the web.  It's great!
-- 
~ Roger Taylor