Re: Unhappy with Syndicomm and Tony Diaz

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote
>The customers of Syndicomm are disappointed with its performance and hope 
>that it will improve in this new year of 2013.

I  am saddened by your message. When I became interested in reliving and 
expanding my own Apple II related stuff, I was delighted to find Eric 
("Sheppy") and Syndicomm still operating and others like Henry (Reactive 
Micro)...

As I got "ankle-deep" into it I wheeled and dealed and bought a little from 
whoever I could as I sunk even deeper into the past and I re-accumulated 
what I had lost and what I had missed during my years of cutting code for 
MS-DOS and Windows to pay the bills...

I have my Orca Compiler and my working GS and Apple //e and Microdrive and 
all sorts of other cool toys and of course my Aztec C... what more could a 
guy ask for when he already has everything including a wonderful life?

But as a realist I knew this all was too good to be true... and too good to 
last. And so I am saddened.

Order Fulfillment is not how I wish to spend my "spare" time on this planet 
and I am thankful that I was able to impose on the good will of these 
dedicated individuals to indulge my own greedy self while they spent their 
"spare" time doing something that I would not be prepared to do.

I hope Syndicomm will continue and David, I understand and thoroughly 
appreciate your dedication to this community including your accompishments 
and I agree with the points that you and others have made in this thread. I 
notice people like Payton weighing-in here too, so I know that the problem 
is a serious one.

I have but one suggestion to those who are still left (not speaking about 
"lightweights" like me now) ... try to find some way to encourage Tony 
rather than alienate him.  This is not me posturing... my Aztec C stuff is 
just my way of fitting-in between some rather large shoulders around here... 
so I am leaving this in your capable hands, respectfully, and going back to 
my bit-twiddling and knitting.

Hope this all works-out.

Bill