Re: Whatever happened to... A2GS-L01?

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Nov 3, 10:32 am, brad <mrb...@ll.net> wrote:
> if anyone knows ...they state on the blog they "lost" their prototype
> and are 8 months behind....how did they lose it? (stolen?.....fire...?)
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> just curious
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> brad
> former sysop lost gonzo bbs
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> On 11/2/2011 5:37 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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> > Ken Gagne wrote:
> >> On Oct 21, 4:38 pm, drkenb <kbuchholz1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> Whatever happened to this project? First it was going to be
> >>> "revealed" during Kansasfest 2010, that didn't happen & then the above
> >>> was posted. It's been 3+ months now since Kansasfest 2011, and I've
> >>> seen nothing about this. The site seems to have been abandoned.
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> >> Looks like their blog was updated last Saturday, possibly in response
> >> to this thread:
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> >>http://www.a2gs.com/apple_iigs_laptop_project_w/project-update--9.html
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> > Wow--and I take reliable postal service for granted...
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> > -michael
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> > NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
> > Home page:http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
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> > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > tool--and it's seriously underused."

It is not too unusual for mail items to disappear but they usually
show up at some later date.  But in this case, it was gone.  We had a
bit of bad luck with the mail service.  A card Sean shipped to us from
Kansas, was "Destroyed" and never arrived here, Our package also never
made it to the destination and our post office had no idea where it
is.  I guess that is what we get for cheaping out on the postage.

So, now, 1500$ later plus, we have most of the items to build another
prototype and hopefully we can finish this before year end.   The sad
thing is the fact that now we have to ship everything EMS. However EMS
costs about 300$ to ship the prototype and it can take up to 3 weeks
in spite of the fact that we pay for 3 day shipping.  This is due in
part to the anti-terror measures in place in which they do not send
any item over 16 ounces direct to the US.

But alas, we have the new items in hand and will have it together
soon.  Stay tuned for more.