Re: Poll about Mockingboard h/w clone

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

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>> "Michael J. Mahon" writes ...
>> >
> There are a few examples of people identifying a "pocket"
> opportunity and doing so with some success--the CFFA card,
> the RAM4GS, and CiderPress are examples.  But I think their
> creators would hardly call them a "business success"--more
> like a break-even labor of love.

Hi Michael,

Being the maker of the RAM-4-GS, I can attest to yourt statement
as being the truth. It is a break even labor of love. The love for the IIgs
and it's owners throughout the world, and I do mean 'the world'. This
3rd run of cards has sold as many to foreign lands as to our own soil,
and thank the good lord for that, otherwise I might be stuck with some
of them. I have a great deal of respect for anyone who developes anything
for the vintage computer lines, as it is for the good of the community, not
the producers of it. The only way to possibly make anything from them is
to have multiple products, and hope to sell 100-200 of each over time.
This would be what we call, "Beer money" at best.   :o)

> Hey, if you think that the "breakthrough retrocomputing
> product" is right around the corner, more power to you--but
> I don't think that the evidence supports that view.

I guess I answered this above.  :o)

Bill Garber