Re: TI-H: Christmas List

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Christmas List
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:40:53 -0900
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Marc and I have set a deadline for the 20th of December.  it has to be out
by then.  I'll email pictures of it to people if they desire...  :\

Grant


>No, I respect what he does. If he doesn't want to work on the display and
>make a final release then he doesn't. And I'll bet Saehan's MP3 HDD portable
>will be in my hand before (and if) his complete HDD player schems and
>drivers are on the web. I'm getting less and less excited about Grants
>player as the days go on, because (Jan?) 1999 I'll be able to buy a HDD
>player from saehan. Although that case is extremely gay and I would
>immediately make a mold and replace it.
>
>
>On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:58:11 -0600, David Knaack wrote:
>
>>
>> From: danb@mailexcite.com <danb@mailexcite.com>
>> >I don't know, but if I were Grant I'd be working my ass off. I mean,
>once
>> >you have made a working MP3 portable player, you've just gotta make it
>> >improved so the public can easily look at COMPLETED schematics, upload a
>> >SINGLE driver for the AVR, and copy windows/mac/linux software to a disc
>> and
>> >take advantage of it by shipping em out and make a lot of $ off of it...
>>
>>
>> I'd hazard a guess that Grant isn't particularly intrested in selling it
>or
>> plans
>> for it (if he was I'm sure he would have done as you said).   Don't
>assume
>> everyone is driven by the same goals as you.  I'm guessing he did it
>because
>> it was an entertaining project and gave him a cool portable player, not
>> because
>> he wanted to get rich teaching the world how to make a device that
>probably
>> more than one major manufacturer will probably be making commercially
>> in a short time.
>>
>> He as absolutly no obligation to release anything he creates, or prove
>> to anyone that he did create it (most of us won't actually believe him
>until
>> we have a working model on our workbench tho...).
>>
>> DK
>>
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