Re: Upgrade the IIgs site

[Stephen Hill <themdjournal@hotmail.com>]

Ok, who posted one of the rants from the Nathan Mates Flame Page??  Fess up!!

Nathan Mates wrote:

> In article <359BCB37.FBD2206D@nccn.net>, tws  <adoyson@nccn.net> wrote:
> >The page will never be cancelled.  It may be moved.  It will continue to
> >exist even if people don't want to give their input.  People say they
> >want new hardware for their GS systems.  There is a waiting list for
> >Accelerator cards at certain Apple II hardware companies.  Why not stop
> >by and share your ideas?
>
>    Idea: produce something, no more vaporware.
>
>    In the past 6 years I've been on csa2, there've been a LOT of addon
> cards 'announced' and never delivered. Graphics boards, ethernet
> boards (I can count at least 2 or 3), DSP boards, addon processor
> boards, etc. [And that's just hardware alone...] Lots of broken
> promises tends to make everyone jaded about plans without actually
> produced items.
>
>    When announcements are cheap and easy to make, but few actually
> deliver on their promises, people just ignore you until things are
> actually completed. Stop the "cheerleading" and mindless posts in
> support of something and actually DO work. Then things'll happen.
>
> Nathan Mates
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