[Coco] SuperBoard Update

[Mark Marlette]

Steve,

I do concur with you on this....

Black-hole is a great analogy of it.

So noted and as always, this goes to every customer of Cloud-9, thanks for the support!

Regards,

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Bjork" <6809er at srbsoftware.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:35:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] SuperBoard Update

Mark,

For me, I don't look at my $100 as a deposit, but support fund for you 
and Cloud-9.

Let us travel back to 2008 and my first CoCoFest in more than a decade.  
While the turnout was smaller than the CoCoFest that I attend, it was an 
active group of people that love the CoCo and its community.  But what 
surprised me was the number of people creating new computer hardware for 
the CoCo.  Roy R Justus was there with his RGB-to-VGA Converter and 
Cloud-9 had a double table with lots of CoCo hardware.

As both a hardware and software designer, I know the hardware side of 
the biz is very costly with a low profit margin.  So, at the end of the 
show I did my bit to help with a purchase Roy's Converter and few 
leftover products from Cloud-9.  My last act was to give Mark a 
"deposit" for the Superboard.

I have never asked "were is my board" or demand for my deposit back. 
(And never will.)  As I said before, it was a support fund.

But I do have the right to say that the Super Board has been come the 
Duke Nukem Forever of the CoCo community.

Both projects have suffered from constant redesign due to improvements 
in technology.  At some point you need to finalize what the board will 
do so it's no longer the black-hole of your time and money.  You got a 
lot of great ideas for the CoCo community and this project is weighing 
you down.

Even Duke Nukem Forever will see the light of day.  (Really, its due out 
this May!)  But should you decide that the Super Board should not come 
out in faver for new projects, so be it!  Just along the black-hole is gone.

Steve (Zaxxon) Bjork


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