Re: Don't buy into pre-orders for Apple II products

[osgeld <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:47:52 PM UTC-5, IUnknown wrote:
> > What amazes me the most isn't that Conrad is failing to give us regular updates as promised, but the fact that he couldn't produce one single piece of concrete evidence. Not a document, not a picture, absolutely nothing, but only scarce and vague words.
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> ^^ THIS. +++++
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> What COMPLETELY amazes me is how he accepted shipment of the cards
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> without verifying that a single one of them actually worked.
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> Fedex handles airbills in nearly every industrial center of the world.
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> If this were my build, I would have requested that they 3-day-air a
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> single card/engineering sample to me for verification and validation.
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> In the worst case, he would be out the money, but at least he would
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> have had some proof that working cards were inbound.... along with
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> pictures, videos, etc.
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> It is comical to think that any reputable manufacturer would have
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> taken offense to this. Engineering samples are commonplace in the
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> electronics manufacturing world.

I think you may be overstating this a tad bit. Engineering samples usually come out of the engineering department, you whip up a board, have 10 made at a kick in the balls price, and proceed to make them up yourself.

you just dont send something off to some random fab and expect them to verify every functional detail, especially on a machine that is at best a niche hobby market in 2013 using custom software generated logic chips

I should know, I am the guy who has to make them all up, and run them though brutal tests and report my findings back to the real engineers with wallpaper.