[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

[RJRTTY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/16/04 5:32:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mmarlett at isd.net 
writes:

> I have been swamped by the SuperIDE project and sales this year. I work
>  full time and spend at least 1 1/2 hour commutting a day. I have three
>  orders left and I'll be caught up in my order back log. That hasn't
>  happened since March of this year. CoCo market? You bet!!! 


     One reason that I have not purchased anything from cloud-9 lately is
I am afraid it would take too much of Mark's time.
I don't  care how long it takes, I am happy to be patient for the superboard.
Without Mark and Boisy we got nothing.  One of the reasons I
stepped up and researched the XRGB upscan converter was to
give people an alternative to "lets get Mark to do it".  I continue
to look for other solutions that offer using plentiful SVGA monitors with
the coco3 ,specifically for something less expensive than the XRGB
converter.  I have looked inside the XRGB converter and it is "scary"
in there.  The chip that does the conversion is a high density surface
mount part driven by another custom part with "XRGB" printed on it.
That part is connected to the control buttons on the outer encloser.
Overall, it doesn't look good for finding something simple and
inexpensive to use as a coco3 based converter.  The AL250
in the matco converter looks more promising as a useful
alternative.  I also have on order a converter used with
the Atari ST series of computer.  We'll see what happens.

     The bottom line is we should be patient.  We don't want Mark
and Boisy to "burn out" and leave us high and dry.  If it takes
longer to do it right then I say "so be it".


Roy